Reframing Teacher In-Service Training in Kenya: Recommendations from the Literature

Following the rapid expansion of Kenya's education system from 2003, raising education standards has emerged as the country's next major nation-building challenge. There is acknowledgement within Kenya that high education standards are dependent upon the quality of its teachers, which is i...

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Published inAfrica education review Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 54 - 66
Main Authors Lowe, Geoffrey M., Prout, Peter F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pretoria Routledge 04.05.2019
UNISA Press
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Academic Standards
Bureaucracy
Culturally Relevant Education
Delivery Systems
Developing Nations
Education standards
Educational Policy
Educational Quality
Foreign Countries
Frame analysis
In-service training
Inservice Education
Inservice Teacher Education
Inservice training
Kenyan teachers
Nation building
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Preservice training
Professionalism
Program Effectiveness
Quality of education
Quality teaching
Teacher education
Teacher Effectiveness
Teachers
Teaching
Technological Literacy
Kenya
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Summary:Following the rapid expansion of Kenya's education system from 2003, raising education standards has emerged as the country's next major nation-building challenge. There is acknowledgement within Kenya that high education standards are dependent upon the quality of its teachers, which is in turn dependent upon the quality of their pre-service training, and subsequent in-service training. However, amidst accusations that educational standards are declining, in-service training programmes in particular have been singled out as being overly bureaucratic, under resourced, poorly delivered and ineffective in helping to raise teaching standards. Further, the literature suggests that current in-service training programmes are failing to address more fundamental issues surrounding Kenyan teaching professionalism as a whole. This article examines the literature surrounding teacher in-service training in Kenya, as identified by Kenyan researchers, with the aim of synthesising and clarifying the major issues surrounding quality and delivery, and then presents policy recommendations for reframing and building effective in-service provision for the future.
ISSN:1814-6627
1753-5921
DOI:10.1080/18146627.2017.1340803