The Extent to Which Economic Structures Affect Learners Participation in Adult Education in, Trans Nzoia County, Kenya
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
Abstract: Adult education encompasses basic literacy that caters for beginners, post literacy for literacy sustainability and Non-formal education for primary and secondary level. Thisstudy was limited to Basic and post-literacy programmes. Despite efforts made by the government in awareness creation and recruitment drives of adult learners; participationin ACE centres has been evasive and quite low. The objective of this study was to establish the extent to which economic structures affect learners participation in adult education. This study was guided by Herzberg’s. Theory of Motivation .The population of this study was 58 ACE centres government sponsored ACE centres with their adult education teachers and a total of 838 adult learners.Purposive sampling technique was used to get a sample of 52 government sponsored ACE centres with its 52 teachers and systematic sampling of 10% of the sample of adult learners, thus 251 adult learners sample. This study used mixed research design to collectand analyse data. The instruments of data collection were a questionnaire, an interview schedule and document analysis. Data analysis was inferential and descriptive statistical analysis. The results ofthis study show that infrastructure affects participation as it was not owned or purpose built for adult education, that instructional resources were obsolete, inadequate and irrelevant to adult learners, that many economic activities affect adult learners’participation, thus a change in learners economic status brings a change in participationand that social-cultural factors affect learners participation as they preoccupy them. Keywords: Adult, Education, Learning, Participation, Resources
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Lydia Cheruto Kipkoech, Emily Kirwok, Handson Omare
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