Pedagogical issues on the implementation of history and government revised curriculum: a case of schools in Kakamega County

The purpose of this study was to find out pedagogical issues on the implementation of the History and Government revised curriculum; a case of schools in Kakamega County. The performance of History and Government has been on a decline trend in Kakamega County, especially after the promulgation of the constitution and subsequent change of curriculum through circular No.2 of 2011. The study set out to establish teachers’ preparedness to achieve content delivery, availability of teaching and learning resources to teach, students and teachers attitude towards the learning and teaching, teaching and learning methods and government agencies support in teaching and learning History and Government revised curriculum. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The target population included the principals, form four teachers of History and Government, and form three History and Government students in selected schools. Instruments of data collection used were questionnaires for the History and Government teachers and form three History and Government students. The research also adopted observation as an instrument of data collection and Interview schedules for the principals. The study was guided by force field theory analysis of change that was developed by Lewin. The theory stresses the process and strategies for planning and implementation of change. It looks at variables such as management, organization and controlling a given situation in an organization. The study was carried out in Kakamega County. Stratified random sampling, purposive and simple random sampling were used to select respondents. A pilot study was done before the main study to establish the appropriateness of the research tools. Data collected was analyzed descriptively using frequencies and percentages and be presented in tabular form. SPSS computer package version was used to analyze the data to establish the relationships between research objectives and the findings. The findings of this study show that most of the History and ...