Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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THE PROBATION SERVICE IN KENYA ITS ORGANISATION FUNCTIONING AND EFFECTIVENESS
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 1978)This was an exercise in testing +ho effectiveness of the Probation of Offenders in 'curing' crime. The substance of the dissertation is built on the basic assumption that crime is part of normal social behavior. Like all ... -
The Demand for an Illegal Commodity:a Case Study of Chang'aa Consumption in Nairobi's Mbotela Estate
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 1987)Economic crime is an area which has been accorded low research priority but this trend is changing due to increasing awareness of the important role played by such activities in the provision of goods and services and ... -
A comparative study of teaching with radio by trained and untrained teachers through pupil achievement
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 1982)The study attempted to compare the effectiveness of trained and untrained teachers on the utilization of instructional radio in the teaching of Health Education to Kenyan Rural Primary Schools. The effectiveness of ... -
THE IMPACT OF INTER-STATE RELATIONS ON THE USE OF THE PTA CLEARING HOUSE
(1992)African integration systems are aimed at promoting economic development through both political and economic means by bringing together of hitherto autonomous regions or countries into an integrated whole. Usually such systems ... -
Knowledge, availability and use of contraceptives in Kenya
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 1986)This thesis examines the effects of socio-economic, demographic and social setting factors on availability, accessibility and use of contraceptives by currently married fecund non-pregnant women aged 15-49 years in Kenya. It ... -
The socio-economic activities of the Arya Samaj Hindu community in Nairobi, a spiritual perspective
(1998)The objective of this study is to exam me the religious motive of the Socio-economic activities of the Arya Samaji in Nairobi. Lack of information explaining the basis of these activities has led to distrust and suspicion ... -
A diagnostic study of Kenyan children with specific language/reading disability: Dyslexia
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 1978)Reading must be regarded as a skill which by no means every child of normal intelligence can easily master, no matter how well and patiently taught. This research is concerned, not with backward readers generally, but only ... -
Objectivity And Personal Involvement In Science: An Examination Of Michael Polanyi's Theory Of Knowledge
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 1988)The present study is an attempt to interpret and understand Michael Polanyi's theory of knowledge. Polanyi's theory of knowledge is basically a repudiation of the modern scientific objectivism. He opposes the view that ... -
Motivation Of Non-managerial Hotel Workers Nairobi
(1981)This study was designed to examine needs on Maslow's hierarchy which may act as motivators and directors of behaviour for non-managerial hotel workers in some Nairobi hotels. It was hypothesized that there would emerge a ... -
Knowledge and belief systems
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 1983)This study takes off from W.V.O. Quine's observation that philosophers have paid far too much attention to the anaIyses of the concept of knowledge at the expense of belief. Quine's attempt to naturalize epistemology is ... -
Teacher-pupil Relationship in Traditional and Progressive Classrooms
(1981)The objective of this study was to determine, empirically, whether, as claimed by its adherents, the Progressive Classroom is superior to the Traditional Classroom in terms of Teacher-Pupil interaction and the use of social ... -
A STYLISTIC APPROACH ADOPTED FOR THE STUDY OF WRITTEN SWAHILI PROSE TEXTS
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 1975)The central aim of this is to subject samples of the three major genres of Swahili literature, i.e., Ushairi ??“poetry, Riwaya-prose, and Tamthilia-drama texts, to stylosatistical analysis. Under the type of analysis in ... -
Analysis of Kenya responses to international terrorism, 1980 - 2005
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 2006)This study investigates the phenomenon of terrorism, its development through time and space, nature and typologies as well as its counter-terrorism measures at global, regional and national (Kenyan) levels. It seeks to ... -
Assessing the role of east African legislative assembly in managing conflicts in the east African sub-region: 2001 - 2008
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 2009)Efforts at achieving integration in East Africa have a long history. Formal economic and social integration have been traced to, inter alia, the commencement of the construction of the Kenya-Uganda Railway (1897-1901), the ... -
The role of computer technology on principals' administration in secondary schools in Homa-bay district, kenya
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 2009)The study was an attempt to establish the role of computer technology on principals' administration. in secondary schools in Homa-Bay District. The study set out to determine the extent the principals use computer technology ... -
The Dimensions of Child Abuse in Kenya: a Case Study of Forms of Child Abuse in Kiambaa Division in Kiambu District
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 2009)Child abuse has for a long time been recorded in literature, art and science in many parts of the world and remains a challenging social problem all over the world. Manifestations of child abuse include: child labour; ... -
Multilateral Negotiation as a Counter-terrorism Strategy; a Case Study of Ai-shabaab
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 2009)The specific objectives of this study were to examine the effectiveness of counterterrorism strategies in Somalia and to investigate whether multilateral negotiation as a counter-terrorism strategy would work with AI-Shabaab ... -
Psychosocial determinants of problem behaviour in secondary school adolescents in Kenya
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 2003)The focus of this study was problem behaviour in adolescence. Specifically, the study sought to understand the psychosocial determinants of problem behaviour in secondary school adolescents in Kenya. The study investigat ... -
Post election violence in Kenya: a case study of Uasin Gishu District, Rift Valley Province, 2007-8
(UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, 2009)Multiparty elections in most cases have been associated with violence that takes various forms depending on the number of actors, the root causes, and the embedded interconnectivity with other forms of conflicts. In most ...
