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Papers by Agnes Rono
Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies, Oct 1, 2012
Achieving sustainable development has been very elusive especially in the developing countries. T... more Achieving sustainable development has been very elusive especially in the developing countries. This is as a result of poor infrastructure, poor governance, unutilized resources, unaccountability, lack of transparency and lack of skilled human capital which in return hinder national development. Middle developed countries like the Asian tigers, such as Singapore, Malaysia, and other East Asian countries have managed to attain economic sustainability and development through utilizing policies which emphasized Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in their learning institutions and also through Knowledge Management (KM)which is a relatively new concept in both information and industrial world which has led to knowledge getting value from the data and information and thus in the path to the realization of Millennium Development Goals {MDG's}. Knowledge management (KM) has further led to a shift towards organizational development, intellectual capital management, and competence management. The current Education system in Kenya is exam oriented and does not provide any functional skills because it encourages rote learning, drilling of the learners and this will eventually lead to mechanical learning, and eventually lead learning not to be learner centered and creativity is not encouraged. The learning institutions eventually churn out learners who lack functional skills and lifelong employability hampered and some will even resort to uncouth ways of acquiring wealth. This paper therefore, proposes that the curricular be modified so as to meet the requirements of Vision 2030 which posits be a creation, adaptation and usage of knowledge which will become part of formal instruction. It also intends to establish how knowledge management can be utilized so as to achieve sustainable development through TVET in Kenya and in the long run curb challenges emanating from inappropriate training methods which lead to non functional education and lack of equity in some knowledge supply chains resulting in lack of lifelong employability.
Moi University, Jul 1, 2012
Das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen, Jan 6, 1970
One approach to enhancing entrepreneurial activity and enterprise growth in developing countries ... more One approach to enhancing entrepreneurial activity and enterprise growth in developing countries is to create an ‘enterprise culture’. To achieve a widespread enterprise culture in the long run, education and training programs in Kenya and in other developing countries need to integrate business, technology, self-employment, and entrepreneurship into the curriculum on the youth of the country. Also, given the widely accepted notion that entrepreneurial ventures are the key to innovation, productivity, and effective competition; the question of whether entrepreneurship can be taught is obsolete. The teaming mass of unemployed youths in the country and the global economic crisis has increased the urgency for countries to identify new sources of growth and develop a sustainable path to economic success. This urgent need for re-orientation calls for a revolution in the system of education that we run as a nation. This study used a qualitative approach using secondary data to examine how...
117 Inclusion of Youths Living with Disabilities in Socio-EconomicActivities in Nyamira County Ma... more 117 Inclusion of Youths Living with Disabilities in Socio-EconomicActivities in Nyamira County Maengwe, James O., Omboto, Peter I., Arogo, Phylis & Rono, Agnes J. Moi University, University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya Rift Valley Technical Training Institute, Eldoret, Kenya Abstract Youth with disabilities often face marginalization and severe social, economic, and civic disparities as compared with those without disabilities. This paper outlines the effects of inclusion of youths living with disabilities in socio-economic activities in Nyamira County. Being a descriptive case study, it targeted the county governor’s office, which is directly responsible for policies concerning the youths with disabilities and employment. The population was 26 respondents and census sampling technique was used. The following objectives guided the study: To document best practices for inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities; to establish the state of preparedness regarding structure, conten...
As globalization reshapes the international economic landscape and technological change creates g... more As globalization reshapes the international economic landscape and technological change creates greater uncertainty in the world economy, the dynamism of entrepreneurship is believed to be able to help to meet the new economic, social and environmental challenges. Governments increasingly consider entrepreneurship and innovation to be the cornerstones of a competitive national economy, and in most countries entrepreneurship policies are closely connected, to help meet the new economic, social and environmental challenges. Women in rural areas have limited access to vocational and technical training especially in developing countries. In fact, women on average have less access to education than men, and technical and vocational skills can only be developed on a strong foundation of basic primary and secondary education. Several researchers have identified various challenges faced by women in SMEs including lack of innovative capacity, lack of managerial training and experience, inade...
Entrepreneurship education has become popular in the recent times and seems to be gaining more cu... more Entrepreneurship education has become popular in the recent times and seems to be gaining more currency in the current world. Indeed there has been a lot of effort towards popularizing entrepreneurship education as a means of creating entrepreneurial culture in order to improve economic performance and attain the goal of vision 2030. Kenya faces a challenge of poverty and acute youth unemployment. Why has entrepreneurship gained currency in the current world? The assertion that entrepreneurs are born is dispelled by the fact that even those with business acumen and propensity to take risks are sharpened or whetted by education. It is now not a debate that Entrepreneurship is taught and learned and that they also ‘become’ through their life experiences. Entrepreneurship education is said to be a lifelong learning process which starts from elementary through graduate programmes and even to working life. Entrepreneurship education is also expected to be focused on skills rather than kn...
One approach to enhancing entrepreneurial activity and enterprise growth in developing countries ... more One approach to enhancing entrepreneurial activity and enterprise growth in developing countries is to create an 'enterprise culture'. To achieve a widespread enterprise culture in the long run, education and training programs in Kenya and in other developing countries need to integrate business, technology, selfemployment, and entrepreneurship into the curriculum on the youth of the country. Also, given the widely accepted notion that entrepreneurial ventures are the key to innovation, productivity, and effective competition; the question of whether entrepreneurship can be taught is obsolete. The teaming mass of unemployed youths in the country and the global economic crisis has increased the urgency for countries to identify new sources of growth and develop a sustainable path to economic success. This urgent need for re-orientation calls for a revolution in the system of education that we run as a nation. This study used a qualitative approach using secondary data to examine how flexible learning can be applied in entrepreneurship education. This paper argues that flexible and open learning is the perspective the entrepreneurship educators should adopt to not only leverage on constant, flexible and student-fit digital content and learning, but also life-long availability of content for nascent and practicing entrepreneurs to learn and relearn relevant skills for creation, management, growth and innovation of competitive business ventures in a digital economy. Along with this, it recommends strong governmental commitment to information and communication technology (ICT) as one of several critical elements needed to help accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation. We also address both benefits and challenges to anticipate when using flexible learning in entrepreneurship education and training.
Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies, Oct 1, 2012
Achieving sustainable development has been very elusive especially in the developing countries. T... more Achieving sustainable development has been very elusive especially in the developing countries. This is as a result of poor infrastructure, poor governance, unutilized resources, unaccountability, lack of transparency and lack of skilled human capital which in return hinder national development. Middle developed countries like the Asian tigers, such as Singapore, Malaysia, and other East Asian countries have managed to attain economic sustainability and development through utilizing policies which emphasized Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in their learning institutions and also through Knowledge Management (KM)which is a relatively new concept in both information and industrial world which has led to knowledge getting value from the data and information and thus in the path to the realization of Millennium Development Goals {MDG's}. Knowledge management (KM) has further led to a shift towards organizational development, intellectual capital management, and competence management. The current Education system in Kenya is exam oriented and does not provide any functional skills because it encourages rote learning, drilling of the learners and this will eventually lead to mechanical learning, and eventually lead learning not to be learner centered and creativity is not encouraged. The learning institutions eventually churn out learners who lack functional skills and lifelong employability hampered and some will even resort to uncouth ways of acquiring wealth. This paper therefore, proposes that the curricular be modified so as to meet the requirements of Vision 2030 which posits be a creation, adaptation and usage of knowledge which will become part of formal instruction. It also intends to establish how knowledge management can be utilized so as to achieve sustainable development through TVET in Kenya and in the long run curb challenges emanating from inappropriate training methods which lead to non functional education and lack of equity in some knowledge supply chains resulting in lack of lifelong employability.
Moi University, Jul 1, 2012
Das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen, Jan 6, 1970
One approach to enhancing entrepreneurial activity and enterprise growth in developing countries ... more One approach to enhancing entrepreneurial activity and enterprise growth in developing countries is to create an ‘enterprise culture’. To achieve a widespread enterprise culture in the long run, education and training programs in Kenya and in other developing countries need to integrate business, technology, self-employment, and entrepreneurship into the curriculum on the youth of the country. Also, given the widely accepted notion that entrepreneurial ventures are the key to innovation, productivity, and effective competition; the question of whether entrepreneurship can be taught is obsolete. The teaming mass of unemployed youths in the country and the global economic crisis has increased the urgency for countries to identify new sources of growth and develop a sustainable path to economic success. This urgent need for re-orientation calls for a revolution in the system of education that we run as a nation. This study used a qualitative approach using secondary data to examine how...
117 Inclusion of Youths Living with Disabilities in Socio-EconomicActivities in Nyamira County Ma... more 117 Inclusion of Youths Living with Disabilities in Socio-EconomicActivities in Nyamira County Maengwe, James O., Omboto, Peter I., Arogo, Phylis & Rono, Agnes J. Moi University, University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya Rift Valley Technical Training Institute, Eldoret, Kenya Abstract Youth with disabilities often face marginalization and severe social, economic, and civic disparities as compared with those without disabilities. This paper outlines the effects of inclusion of youths living with disabilities in socio-economic activities in Nyamira County. Being a descriptive case study, it targeted the county governor’s office, which is directly responsible for policies concerning the youths with disabilities and employment. The population was 26 respondents and census sampling technique was used. The following objectives guided the study: To document best practices for inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities; to establish the state of preparedness regarding structure, conten...
As globalization reshapes the international economic landscape and technological change creates g... more As globalization reshapes the international economic landscape and technological change creates greater uncertainty in the world economy, the dynamism of entrepreneurship is believed to be able to help to meet the new economic, social and environmental challenges. Governments increasingly consider entrepreneurship and innovation to be the cornerstones of a competitive national economy, and in most countries entrepreneurship policies are closely connected, to help meet the new economic, social and environmental challenges. Women in rural areas have limited access to vocational and technical training especially in developing countries. In fact, women on average have less access to education than men, and technical and vocational skills can only be developed on a strong foundation of basic primary and secondary education. Several researchers have identified various challenges faced by women in SMEs including lack of innovative capacity, lack of managerial training and experience, inade...
Entrepreneurship education has become popular in the recent times and seems to be gaining more cu... more Entrepreneurship education has become popular in the recent times and seems to be gaining more currency in the current world. Indeed there has been a lot of effort towards popularizing entrepreneurship education as a means of creating entrepreneurial culture in order to improve economic performance and attain the goal of vision 2030. Kenya faces a challenge of poverty and acute youth unemployment. Why has entrepreneurship gained currency in the current world? The assertion that entrepreneurs are born is dispelled by the fact that even those with business acumen and propensity to take risks are sharpened or whetted by education. It is now not a debate that Entrepreneurship is taught and learned and that they also ‘become’ through their life experiences. Entrepreneurship education is said to be a lifelong learning process which starts from elementary through graduate programmes and even to working life. Entrepreneurship education is also expected to be focused on skills rather than kn...
One approach to enhancing entrepreneurial activity and enterprise growth in developing countries ... more One approach to enhancing entrepreneurial activity and enterprise growth in developing countries is to create an 'enterprise culture'. To achieve a widespread enterprise culture in the long run, education and training programs in Kenya and in other developing countries need to integrate business, technology, selfemployment, and entrepreneurship into the curriculum on the youth of the country. Also, given the widely accepted notion that entrepreneurial ventures are the key to innovation, productivity, and effective competition; the question of whether entrepreneurship can be taught is obsolete. The teaming mass of unemployed youths in the country and the global economic crisis has increased the urgency for countries to identify new sources of growth and develop a sustainable path to economic success. This urgent need for re-orientation calls for a revolution in the system of education that we run as a nation. This study used a qualitative approach using secondary data to examine how flexible learning can be applied in entrepreneurship education. This paper argues that flexible and open learning is the perspective the entrepreneurship educators should adopt to not only leverage on constant, flexible and student-fit digital content and learning, but also life-long availability of content for nascent and practicing entrepreneurs to learn and relearn relevant skills for creation, management, growth and innovation of competitive business ventures in a digital economy. Along with this, it recommends strong governmental commitment to information and communication technology (ICT) as one of several critical elements needed to help accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation. We also address both benefits and challenges to anticipate when using flexible learning in entrepreneurship education and training.