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Educ 220/420: Comparative Education Question Paper

Educ 220/420: Comparative Education

Course:Bachelor Of Education Science

Institution: Kabarak University question papers

Exam Year:2010

COURSE CODE: EDUC 220/420
COURSE TITLE: COMAPARATIVE EDUCATION
STREAM: SESSION 1,111&1V
DAY: THURSDAY
TIME: 2.00 - 4.00 P.M
DATE: 25/11/2010

INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer ALL questions in SECTION ONE

SECTION ONE
1. (a) Define Comparative Education (2 marks)
(b) Comparative Education has undergone several stages in its development with each
subsequent stage being a response to the problems posed by the previous one. Analyze
this statement with reference to the period of education borrowing and the phase of
Concern for Cultural Contexts.
(6 marks)
(c) Give reasons why studying Comparative Education is important for student teachers
(5 marks)
(d) Describe the administration of the French education system.
(5 marks)
(e) Justify the description of American education as ‘democratic’.
(5 marks)
(f) Give TWO acts of parliament that have influenced education in Britain .
(2 marks)

(g) Outline the steps followed in historical approach to studying comparative
education.
(5 marks)

SECTION B (Choose any TWO questions from this section)
2. (a) Outline the structure of Kenya’s education sector and the challenges associated with
it (6 marks)
(b) Trace the historical development of Japanese education from early times
to the Present.
(8 marks)
(c) Compare and contrast teacher training and development in Kenya and
Japan. (6 marks)
3. (a) Describe the roles of the following in the administration of American education
(15 marks)
(a) The state Governments
(b) Local education boards
(c) The Federal Government
(b) Compare the secondary school system in Kenya & America
(5 marks)

4. (a) Identify and discuss some of the education reforms made in education
systems since Independence of the following countries:
(i) Nigeria
(ii) Kenya
Attempt to link the reforms to responses by the countries to social and
political Changes in their respective societies (10 marks)
(b) Explain what is meant when education in Great Britain is referred to as a
national system but locally administered.
(5 marks)
(c) Differentiate between a centralized and decentralized system of
education administration. (5 marks)

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