Factors influencing prevalence of bussing in private primary schools in Eldoret town Uasin-Gishu County,Kenya
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Date
2013Author
Omusonga, Benson A
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Transportation of children is becoming a global concern in the major urban region today.
This is causing a serious physical, emotional and psychological distress on the children.
The prevalence of busing is high especially in Kenya as one of the developing nations.
This research will investigate the factors influencing prevalence of busing culture in light
of pupil learning in private primary schools in Eldoret town. The areas of interest in these
prevalence's are the contributions focus on extend of parental lifestyle to learners
transportation to school. Accessibility to motoring service operators on pupils travel, the
nature of administrative influence to the vice and the social impact other children peer
pressure to embrace busing. The john Biggs constructivism theory on deep learning
approach will help shade insight to the theoretic understanding on social issues enforcing
pupils into busing drawing a clear conceptual framework constituting the prevalence of
busing factors on pupils in private. The study intends to engage descriptive design by
employing both qualitative and quantitative tool to operationalize this research. The
target population is the 3223 in the 75 private schools within this former Eldoret
municipality. The study stratified random sample Y3 of these schools obtain 25 areas to
investigate a sample of 322 at 12 with a ratio of 1: I, 6 boys to 6 girls. The questionnaire
examined the central Business District, suburb and the periphery school. The admission
generate dated for the Statistical Package Science Software analysis for central tendency
mean and standard Deviation for analyzing factors such as parental lifestyle, access to
vehicles, leadership and peer pressure influencing prevalence on busing discussion. The
results exhibited social forces behind this build up of these phenomena within this town.
There was a clear indication of poor policy facing this sector since there was not order
among these operators. This is a clear market responding to both internal and external
forces. This has led to deregulation of this service operation without guidelines to
regulate the player. Awareness must be given room to explore better avenues to operate
this sector especially bearing in mind the child without say. This means calling for
appropriate approach for key stakeholder to review this mess and develop workable
structure toward addressing this issue in good time. Establish a statistical centre for an
early warning signs. The study recommendation for further research or presentation for
workshops and seminar for policy formulation on busing issues of concern for review and
implementation sound pupils transit to their daily destination without intimidation from
opportunist. This will allow quick or rapid respond to any eventuality in future through
scientific and academics researches. This research model sample was limited to only
Eldoret town a much wider scale will in future be required to verify what has been done
as per now. This will provide a clear and a critical evaluation on this scourge later not
only with private institution but also with public entities.
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University of Nairobi
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