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Primary education and entrepreneurship in east Africa: a case study of private schools for the poor in Kibera(Kenya)

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par Keunne Nodem Eric
University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne - Master of Education 2010
  

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3.1.2.2 Interviews

Telephone interviews were carried from the EG West Centre (Newcastle University) with a small number of private schools entrepreneurs as well as with George Mikwa, the president of the Kenyan Independent School Association (KISA). This was done following the standardized open-ended interview type. The wordings and sequence of questions were determined in advance and all the school owners were asked the same basic questions in the same order. (Patton, 1990:288-289)

The questions ranged from main concerns on issues surrounding their motivations from setting private schools in the slum of Kibera, their point of view concerning the investment climate in the area, the regulatory environment and finally what they thought was the major gap in their provision. The latter gave answers to the same questions which were later on compared and analyzed.

3.1.2.3 Test scores

In order to instigate triangulation, the researcher requested test scores from school authorities. The objective here was to scrutinize pupils' achievements in three subjects, respectively: English language, Mathematics and Kiswahili, the local language.

It was thought earlier that the information contained in the pupils' test score would enable us to make a correlation between children personal assessment of their performances in these subjects and what they actually achieved within the academic year.

However, it's worth noting that these test scores were not obtained through standardized test, rather they were obtained thanks to the collaboration of school heads. These test scores provided meaningful information and its purpose was therefore useful in adding more knowledge to our field of enquiry (Best, J &Kahn 2003:248)

3.1.2.4 Documentary

Documentary was equally explored as another source of evidence. The main documentary that provided useful information for the study was found in presentations delivered at the CATO Institute, Washington D.C by private school entrepreneurs under the auspice of Professor Tooley and Dr Dixon. This documentary was accessible through the E.G West website and discussions were centred on private school entrepreneurship in India, Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe. In a nutshell, the entrepreneurs in their talks enlightened the audience on the background information of their business in the field of education. It was revealed here that most of these entrepreneurs or private school owners have had a longstanding experience in the educational field prior to opening their schools.

This «source- oriented» approach has had the merit of helping us determine our project as well as it did helped us to generate questions for the research (Bell 2005:123)

Another set of documentary made up of past and ongoing research on private education were equally explored. Academic articles, journals and edited books from scholars such as Tooley and Dixon(2005), Rose and Adelabu(2006), Lewin(2007), Srivastava(2007) just to name a few served as guidelines in the preparation of the overall research question and thus opened an avenue for as many sources of investigation as possible.

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