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Title: Responding to the Special Needs of Children: Educating HIV/AIDS Orphans in Kenya.
Author : Childhood Education
Release Date : January 15, 2004
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,Nonfiction,Family & Relationships,
Pages : * pages
Size : 201 KB

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In America, as elsewhere in the developing world, education is viewed as the most prominent public policy issue, involving an interplay of national budget allocation and foreign assistance. In Kenya, education is considered the pillar of all development activities (Odiwour, 2000). The guiding philosophy for Kenya's education is the belief that every Kenyan, no matter his or her socioeconomic status, has the inalienable right to basic education (National Development Plan, 1997). Consequently, Kenya spends 40 percent of its official budget on education (United Nations Development Program, 2003). While Fagerlind and Saha (1989) stressed the complexities affecting the link between education and developmental, more recent studies have highlighted the long-term positive developmental effects of education (Barnett, 1995; Haveman & Wolfe, 1995; UNICEF, 2003). As enrollments in schools continue to rise, some researchers are predicting an increased demands for education as well as a need to serve children who present increasingly diverse needs (Hernandez, 1995; Odiwour, 2000). Developing countries that are faced with the HIV/AIDS pandemic have additional challenges to address. How does Kenya, a country faced with economic, social, and health challenges, educate and care for those "special needs" children who have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic?