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Record W1969012908 · doi:10.5430/wje.v5n1p52

Adult and Continuing Education in Kenya: The Need for Transformative Leadership

2015· article· en· W1969012908 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueWorld Journal of Education · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Education Systems and Policies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTransformative learningLegislationLegislatureAdult educationLifelong learningPublic relationsInstructional leadershipHuman resourcesPedagogyPolitical scienceSociologyPsychologyEconomic growthEducational leadershipEconomics

Abstract

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As a multidisciplinary process, Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) is meant to foster efficient lifelong learningthroughout life. To achieve this, it should be geared towards providing knowledge, skills as well as attitudes thatensure equal opportunities to life, meeting the needs of individuals of all ages so as to understand the world and thechanges being experienced. In a bid to attain a newly industrialized status, Kenya’s Vision 2030 development planendeavours to develop the relevant human resource base through, among others, ACE. However, the provision ofACE in Kenya faces such challenges as inappropriate learning environment, inadequate instructional materials andthe inability to balance career and family demands. This is partly due to inept leadership, non-adherence to therelevant policy guidelines and pieces of legislation. In this paper, it is asserted that in order to achieve the aims ofACE, embracing transformative leadership is paramount. Thus, this piece of work is informed by the theory oftransformational leadership which lays emphasis on how leaders, in various fields, can actually impact and ortransform their subjects positively, and vice versa. In addition to exploring the policy and legislative frameworksconcerning the provision of ACE in Kenya, this paper provides some intervention measures to the outstandingchallenges.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.187
Threshold uncertainty score0.298

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.067
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.307 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it