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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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3.2 Permission and Ethics

Before engaging ourselves on the field for the research, a letter of permission for the study and data gathering was sent to the owners of the selected schools in Kibera. This was done thanks to the collaboration and support of George Mikwa, the president Kenyan Independent School Association (KISA). Various principals and school owners received these letters prior to the investigation. The latter stated in precise words our main objective for the study, the appropriate schedule as well as the people that we thought could actively be involved in the process of data collection. . We equally reassured both the school owners and respondents that the information gathered in this course shall be treated with strict sense of confidentiality and anonymity, which are considered the norm for the conduct of research. (BERA 2004, p8)

3.3 Conducting the research in Kibera

Prior to undertaking this research, a series of reflexion related to its management and feasibility were conducted with friends and colleagues. We initially thought of carrying the same research in Cameroon. Some contacts were already established to serve this purpose. However, due to time and financial constraints, it was advised by my supervisor that the study should be carried rather in Kenya. In fact, there was little evidence ahead that the study, if done in Cameroon would be reliable and valid considering the fact that we were relying of a journalist in the distribution of the questionnaires and sending back at Newcastle.

Kenya and Kibera was chosen among other destinations for the following reasons:

Ø Kibera was known to be one of the largest slums in East Africa and therefore, there were chances to find private schools catering for the poor in the locality.

Ø Information at our disposal revealed the existence of a Union of school entrepreneurs in Kenya, thus offering the opportunity to get more knowledge on private school entrepreneurs and their functioning body

Ø A good number a research and reports had already been done on the slum of Kibera and exploring the existing documentation was to be of great supplement.

Ø Finally, officials of the EG West Centre (Newcastle University) had very strong ties with entrepreneurs in Kenya and this helped enormously in the process of data collection.

All the research questionnaires were channelled to George Mikwa at Nairobi, Kenya and he made sure that these questionnaires reached our respondents. Upon completing the questionnaires, the same George sent these back to us at the EG West for evaluation and analysis.

Finally, all the interviews with the president of KISA and other school owners were carried from the EG West centre with support from my supervisor and friends.

3.4 Limitation of the study

No proposed research study is without limitation, this is simply because due to time constraint and lack of extended financial resources, it was practically impossible for us to investigate primary education and Entrepreneurship in all the slums of East Africa. Our study did henceforth focused on a specific slum, that of Kibera with foci on twenty private school entrepreneurs, twenty five teachers and twenty five pupils. Though case study is equally considered flexible, the realities here in these schools would not necessarily reflect those in some other private schools. This means that our results cannot to an extent be generalized. The reason for this being that, not all the teachers and pupils living in and attending private schools in Kibera did took part in the questionnaire administration. We were aware of the fact that criticism may arise from population responses as some may consider their point biased. Further, due to financial constraints, the questionnaires were elaborated and sent to Kenya through the President of the Kenyan school Association (KISA) for effective collection of data. This may be considered another shortcoming of our procedure as it was not done personally by the researcher. However, specific measures were taken prior to sending the questions on the field and the analysis equally took note of this aspect.

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