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Political interference in the running of education in post-independence Kenya: a critical retrospection
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In this article, the authors argue that these political decisions have marginalized the role and contribution of professionals and thus impacted negatively on policy formulation and implementation, and blame politicians for the crises in the education sector in Kenya today.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Educational Development.The article was published on 2003-03-01. It has received 124 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Education policy & Comparative education.read more
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The challenge of increasing access and improving quality: an analysis of universal primary education interventions in kenya and tanzania since the 1970s
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how interventions to provide universal primary education (UPE) from the 1970s into the twenty-first century affected efforts to improve the quality of primary education in Kenya and Tanzania.
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Emerging Private Education in Africa: Determinants of School Choice in Rural Kenya
Mikiko Nishimura,Takashi Yamano +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors observed that the proportion of children attending private primary schools increased from 4.6% in 2004 to 11.5% in 2007, indicating that parents react to the quality of public education, as measured by the pupil-teacher ratios of public schools, by attending private schools and transferring to different schools.
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Educational Development in Kenya and the Role of Information and Communication Technology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an insight into the state of educational development in Kenya and the role of ICT in narrowing the knowledge divide, while revealing the challenges faced in educational development.
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Education for all: a framework for addressing the persisting illusion for the Kenyan context
TL;DR: The economic and sociopolitical context for implementing education for all (EFA) policy in Kenya is examined in this article, where a proposal on projection for the funding level required for the realization of universal access based on current enrolment and existing infrastructure is offered.
Ethnic Favoritism in Primary Education in Kenya
Eric Kramon,Daniel N. Posner +1 more
TL;DR: Kramon et al. as mentioned in this paper found that having a coethnic as president during one's primary school-age years is associated with about a one-quarter of a year increase in years of primary schooling and with substantial increases in the probability of attending and completing both primary and secondary school.
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The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly
TL;DR: The genesis of the state: the shadow theatre of ethnicity the unequal state - "little men" and "big men" the bourgeois illusion the opportunity state as mentioned in this paper, and political action: entrepreneurs, factions and political networks the politics of the belly.
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Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument
Patrick Chabal,J-P Daloz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the informalization of politics and the re-traditionalization of society are discussed, and a new paradigm is proposed -the political instrumentalization of disorder is proposed.
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Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument
TL;DR: The informalization of politics: whither the state? the illusions of civil society recycled elites, the profits of violence, the productivity of economic failure, the moral economy of corruption, the bounties of dependence what if Africa refused to develop? as discussed by the authors.
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Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment
TL;DR: Co-published with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa and Africa World Press Inc. as discussed by the authors, the paper is a co-production of the Africa World Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.
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