| dc.creator | Kibera, Lucy Wairimu | |
| dc.date | 2011-05-03T13:53:56Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-05-03T13:53:56Z | |
| dc.date | 1993 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T13:21:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T13:21:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Kibera, Lucy Wairimu. (1993) Vocationalising Kenya's secondary school curriculum: career and educational aspirations of boys and girls. Discussion Paper 293, Nairobi: Instituite for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/772 | |
| dc.identifier | 317525 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1994 | |
| dc.description | This paper investigates the effects of the 8-4-4 curriculum, with
its emphasis on vocational education, on secondary school students'
career and educational aspirations. Specifically, the study examines the
extent to which the 8-4-4 curriculum has adequately prepared and
oriented students towards self-employment, technical, and farm-related
occupations. It also investigates whether the 8-4-4 curriculum has
lowered students' educational aspirations.
Students' dislike of blue collar occupations and their manifestation
of high educational aspirations have been blamed on the earlier
curriculum (7-4-2-3) which was said to be too academic. The findings of this study suggest that the 8-4-4 curriculum has neither managed to
orient students positively towards self-employment, technical, and farmrelated
occupations nor reduced their desire for white collar occupations
arid acquisition of post secondary education. The findings also revealed
that male secondary school students have higher educational and career
aspirations than female students. But when female students are educated
in educational institutions of comparable quality to those of male
students, they manifest, higher educational and career aspirations than
those of their male counterparts. A related finding is that mothers in
middle and high socio-economic status have greater influence than
fathers on their children's career and educational aspirations. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;293 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Work and Labour | |
| dc.subject | Education | |
| dc.title | Vocationalising Kenya's secondary school curriculum: career and educational aspirations of boys and girls | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
