Social and Development Studies

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    Cultivating Peace as a Socialization Outcome in Universities: The Role of Institutional-based Religious Students’ Associations
    (East African Journal of Education Studies, 2023-03-09) Murugi ,Priscilla Ng’ae
    The search for peace and harmony entails many life aspects across the globe and various institutions. While the common conflicts in Kenya are skewed on tribal, political, and family orientations, the effects spread into institutions of higher learning. It is on this background that the need for cultivating peace in universities through nurtured socialisation outcomes is attributed to students’ association. The article emanates from a study conducted in 2020-2021 with the purpose of examining the influence of students’ associations on educational socialisation outcomes among students in selected universities in Nairobi County, Kenya. Guided by Structural Functionalist Theory, the study used a mixed-methods design. The target population of students in ten chartered universities in Nairobi County. The researcher used a sample of 3 universities and achieved involved 167 students. Using stratified and simple random sampling techniques combined with purposive sampling, the study selected universities, deans of students, and individual association members. Data was gathered using an observation checklist, and questionnaire for students, and an interview schedule for deans of students. The researcher piloted the research instruments in one of the private universities that were not among the main study sites. The reliability and validity of the instruments were checked using the split-half technique and critically assessing the consistency of the responses on the pilot questionnaires. The data collected was then analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24. The major finding was that participation in students’ religious association activities influenced educational socialisation outcomes. The outcomes can be harnessed into creating peaceful and harmonious co-existence in institutions of higher learning through which cultural, religious, and political diversities can be shared for the socio-wellbeing of the university community. The study recommends the embracing of students’ religious-based associations by university administrators to foster peace education.
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    Influence of Psychological Factors on Adolescent Deviancy Amongst Pupils From Single-Mother Families in Public Primary Schools in Nairobi County, Kenya
    (International Research Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities, 2023) Charo, Catherine Patterson; Maroko, Mokua Gilbert
    The study looked into how psychological factors affect teen deviance in single-mother families and in public primary schools in Nairobi County, Kenya. Specific goals of the study were to find out how common deviant behavior is among adolescents from single-mother families; to find out how emotional involvement and deviant behavior are linked. This is how the study worked: It had 100 participants. The tools for collecting data were questionnaires and interview schedules. The study was based on Erikson's phases of psychosocial. Proportionate simple random sampling was used to get a sample from each stratum totalling 164. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24 was used to look at quantitative data and do both descriptive and inferential statistics. Multiple regressions were used to test the study's hypotheses. Qualitative data, on the other hand, was used to find themes. Data was shown in frequency tables, mean tables, and figures. The study concluded that after completing all of the analysis of the objective, which aimed to investigate the prevalence of adolescent deviancy among single-mother families in public primary schools, the study came to the conclusion that the majority of the students have experimented with drugs and alcohol, abused other students at school, cheated and physically fought with other students, and did not forget that the majority of them skipped school. Additionally, the majority of students do not attend courses and engage in inappropriate behavior such as clothing inappropriately, using harsh language, and displaying arrogance toward professors and other students in general. The study recommends that parents should try and observe their children to mitigate experimenting on; drugs and alcohol abuse also they should advice against abusing others, in indecent dressing, cheating at school or even physical fight with others students. Also, the school should have a strong fence to reduce cases of sneaking out of school.