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Tfd 401: Contemporary And Comparative Issues In Education Question Paper

Tfd 401: Contemporary And Comparative Issues In Education

Course:Bachelor Of Education

Institution: South Eastern Kenya University question papers

Exam Year:2016

SOUTH EASTERN KENYA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2016/2017

FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

TFD 401: CONTEMPORARY AND COMPARATIVE ISSUES IN EDUCATION

28TH NOVEMBER, 2016 TIME: 10.30AM-12.30P.M

Instructions: Answer Question One and Any Other Two
Question ONE (30 Marks) COMPULSORY
a. What do you understand by the term comparative education? (4 Marks)
b. Name the main phases in the development of comparative education (4 Marks)
c. Describe any one of the phases named in (b) above (4 Marks)
d. Outline the relevance of the phase you have described in (c) above to modern theory and
practice of education (4 Marks)
e. Discuss the rationale of studying comparative education by prospective teachers
(10Marks)
f. Give any FOUR challenges faced in the study of comparative education (4 Marks)

Question TWO (20 Marks)
a. There are various factors that helped to shape features in systems of education to
be the way they are. Name these factors. (6 Marks)
b. Discuss how any two of these factors in (a) above have shaped features in systems
of education in the world (14 Marks)

Question THREE (20 Marks)
a. Compare and contrast the systems of education in USA and France (10 Marks)
b. Discuss the lessons that developing countries can borrow from the systems above
(10 Marks)

Question FOUR (20 Marks)
a. Define brain drain (2 Marks)
b. Discuss the major causes of brain drain in Africa today (8 Marks)
c. Highlight the steps that third world countries can institute to solve this problem(10Marks)

Question FIVE (20 Marks)
a. Define dependency ratio (2 Marks)
b. Describe FOUR effects of a high dependency ratio on the access of education (8 Marks)
c. Discuss how the unprecented growth of population in Kenya has had a impact on the
provision of free primary education (10 Marks)

Tfd 401: Contemporary And Comparative Issues In Education Question Paper

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