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    Factors that Influence the Attitudes of Adolescents Towards Christian Religious Education in Nairobi secondary schools /
    (2014-05-19) Jusu, John Kpaleh
    This research was designed to determine the factors that influence the attitude of students towards Christian religious education. Consequently, the present research faced a dual purpose. In the first place, it sought to identify the type of attitude students in Nairobi secondary schools offering CRE as an examinable subject express towards CRE and secondly to ascertain the demographic and pedagogical variables that may be related to such attitudes. Two hundred and twenty-two (222) Forms 2 and 3 students were randomly selected from six schools operating the local 8.4.4 system of education to make the research sample. The students were requested to rank by preference the subjects they were taking in the present term of the research. From the rank lists, two groups of students were identified: those who ranked CRE high and those who ranked CRE low. These two categories of students formed the bases for the examination of the factors that were considered to influence the attitudes of students towards CRE. The crosssectional design was used and the instrument for data collection was designed after the Likert Method and Scaling. The student version of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was used for analyses of data collected. The research revealed that generally, students have a positive attitude towards CRE, but the positive attitude was not related to demographic factors of age, level of education, Church attendance, involvement in Church activities and gender. The attitude of students was related to pedagogical factors. The students' perception of the role of CRE in the curriculum, the content and approach of CRE, and the textbooks used in CRE were found to be related to the attitudes of students towards CRE. Students generally accept the role of CRE in the curriculum as worthwhile. Unlike those with a negative attitude towards CRE, students with a positive attitude towards CRE have a favorable disposition towards the content of CRE, the approach teachers use for CRE and the textbooks used in CRE. Notably, the research revealed that students do not generally perceive their teachers as honest, friendly and dependable, they are, generally further convinced that their teachers do not know them very well.
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    The influence of the Media on the Developmental Life of the Adolescents in Nairobi Pentecostal church
    (2014-05-09) Emenike, Mathias Princewill
    The purpose of this study was to find out the level of exposure to media communication among the adolescents, particularly adolescents in Nairobi Pentecostal Church-Central. An attempt was also made to find out specific ways that the media are exerting influence on the social and moral development of the adolescents. The researcher also sought to see whether these specific ways of media influence on the social and moral development of the adolescents have any relationship to the age of the adolescents, sex differences of the adolescents and the adolescents' level of exposure to media communication. The study focused further on attempt to discover the extent of this media influence on the social and moral development of the adolescents either positively or negatively. Based on the gathered information, recommendations were made to parents and Churches on how to help the adolescents get the best from the media. The findings of this study revealed that the adolescents have a high degree of exposure to media communication. Findings also revealed two positive and five negative ways of media influence on the social development of the adolescents and also two positive and two negative ways of media influence on their moral development. Again, while age and media influence have no significant relationship, gender differences seem to have strong relationship with media influence on their social development but not on their moral development. Level of media exposure also seems to have strong relationship with media influence on their social development but not on their moral development. The negative influence of the media was also discovered to be greater than the positive influence on their social and moral development although, the difference is not significant.