DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ADULT AND CONTINUED EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IN KERICHO DISTRICT
In the earlier days of the introduction of the adult literacy programmes in Kericho district, there were many problems and obstacles that the government had to skip first before they could start assessing the success of the programmes. First and foremost was the task of persuading the illiterate adults to believe and accept that age wasn’t a barrier to learning and their general understanding of what will be taught to them in the classrooms .Many of them had the psychology eep rooted in to them that schooling was for the young ones and that an adult wouldn’t do very well .
Convincing this people to go for the programmes was a very big problem. In adulthood, every body is already too busy in life to find the time to accomplish their every day life’s activities .Winning the families’ daily bread alone takes up to ninety percent of their time, leaving them with only ten percent of the days to share among the other activities in life. Thus, convincing the illiterate adults in to gathering in an adult education classroom was just but another very hard task that needed extra energy and time and perhaps finances in order to achieve it.
That was how it was in the past in kericho, it wasn’t very easy to get them to seat in class for even just one single hour daily, but things are changing with the times. According to the reports that were given to us by the District Adult Education officer, there have been developments which have lead to big psychological changes in the illiterate adult population in the district. According to the officer ,Mr. Gabriel Tum, the adult education department has witnessed among its students population people have are fully committed to learning and they have decided to share their time and follow up strictly with the adult education programmes.
The officer told us that the attending population is very good compared to the total percentage of illiterate adults in the district,it is considered to still be very low only that there is a small rise in the student numbers .The difference is that ,in the past they could gather even twenty or more in a class and then suddenly disappear without reasons or explanations and it wasn’t easy to follow them.
The odd thing about the functioning of the adult and continued education department in the district is that the department doesn’t have even one single adult education center in Kericho town .All their centers are located on the outskirts of the town ,in the villages .
The Department boasts of its few achievements though, First ,the officer told us that they have managed to issue their committed student with proficiency corticated after they sat for a proficiency test .This was done to mark that they were now proficient in their reading ,writing and doing simple calculations .These student are no longer the dump and deaf people they were in the passed but the are people who can fill out forms in the banks ,the post office ,the administration offices and all the others offices where they can be wanted t o some reading and writing and sign this forms very well to .They can do the calculations that go with these activities well too.
In the earlier days of the introduction of the adult literacy programmes in Kericho district, there were many problems and obstacles that the government had to skip first before they could start assessing the success of the programmes. First and foremost was the task of persuading the illiterate adults to believe and accept that age wasn’t a barrier to learning and their general understanding of what will be taught to them in the classrooms .Many of them had the psychology eep rooted in to them that schooling was for the young ones and that an adult wouldn’t do very well .
Convincing this people to go for the programmes was a very big problem. In adulthood, every body is already too busy in life to find the time to accomplish their every day life’s activities .Winning the families’ daily bread alone takes up to ninety percent of their time, leaving them with only ten percent of the days to share among the other activities in life. Thus, convincing the illiterate adults in to gathering in an adult education classroom was just but another very hard task that needed extra energy and time and perhaps finances in order to achieve it.
That was how it was in the past in kericho, it wasn’t very easy to get them to seat in class for even just one single hour daily, but things are changing with the times. According to the reports that were given to us by the District Adult Education officer, there have been developments which have lead to big psychological changes in the illiterate adult population in the district. According to the officer ,Mr. Gabriel Tum, the adult education department has witnessed among its students population people have are fully committed to learning and they have decided to share their time and follow up strictly with the adult education programmes.
The officer told us that the attending population is very good compared to the total percentage of illiterate adults in the district,it is considered to still be very low only that there is a small rise in the student numbers .The difference is that ,in the past they could gather even twenty or more in a class and then suddenly disappear without reasons or explanations and it wasn’t easy to follow them.
The odd thing about the functioning of the adult and continued education department in the district is that the department doesn’t have even one single adult education center in Kericho town .All their centers are located on the outskirts of the town ,in the villages .
The Department boasts of its few achievements though, First ,the officer told us that they have managed to issue their committed student with proficiency corticated after they sat for a proficiency test .This was done to mark that they were now proficient in their reading ,writing and doing simple calculations .These student are no longer the dump and deaf people they were in the passed but the are people who can fill out forms in the banks ,the post office ,the administration offices and all the others offices where they can be wanted t o some reading and writing and sign this forms very well to .They can do the calculations that go with these activities well too.
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