BC-Department of Educational Psychology

Permanent URI for this collection

https://repository.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3162

Browse

Browsing BC-Department of Educational Psychology by Issue Date

Filter results by year or month
Now showing 1 - 5 of 5
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Wither African Indigenous Knowledge? The Case Of Primary Education In Africa From Colonialism To Globalisation
    (2008) Sifuna, Daniel N.
    The paper shows that the success of any education system depends not only on the nature of its aims, but also on its content. Indigenous African education grew out of the immediate environment, real or imaginary. From the physical environment, children had to learn about weather, landscape, animal and insect life. Children had to have knowledge of important aspects of the environment in order to adopt and exploit it. Most of the early Western scholars at the time of colonization, however, assumed that because Africans knew no reading and writing, they had no systems, contents and methods of education to pass on to the young. To such scholars, education in Africa meant Western civilization. The failure to integrate indigenous learning and Western education was partly a deliberate effort to eradicate African education. The introduction of Western institutions by some colonial agencies, especially the Christian missionaries was also calculated to undermine many aspects of African social structures and pave the way for their replacement. The Western assault on traditional knowledge also applied to the replacement of local languages with foreign languages. With achievement of independence for most African countries in the 1960s, little effort was devoted to considering whether the knowledge conveyed in the schools was of relevance for the young nations. The more urgent problems had to do with the expansion of education, with the building of new schools, with government take-over of private schools as well as doing away with racially-segregated schools. Consequently, curriculum reform to reflect the relevance of the African setting did not take place. Western curricula values continued to be reinforced after independence. The current forces of globalisation, which have strong elements of cultural imperialism and aim at the harmonization of attitudes, supposedly, with the emergence of a global culture and the domination in the use of foreign languages in primary schools in Africa provide little or no room for acquisition of African indigenous knowledge. To arrest the current situation, the paper proposes that it is best for Africa to look to herself for the development of her own curricula and modes of delivery through the examination of methods and techniques of indigenous African knowledge.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Parenting: Conflict between traditional and modern parenting practices in Nairobi, Kenya
    (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2012-03-20) Wang'eri, T. W.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Transformative Education for the 21st Century: Gender, equity and inclusion in Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2021-02) Wabwire, Daniel
    The Kenyan Government, is a key stakeholder in the education sector, and has the obligation to engage different actors in ensuring that the gender parity discourse in education translates into praxis. Any gender related programme, which fails to address a girl child right to education as priority problem area, cannot drive the transformative education agenda for women. This right is not only a gender issue, but also an equality, equity and inclusive issue. In order for education in Kenya to be progressively transformative and able to face 21st century, theory and research methodology are critical. This paper argues that: i) though every child has the right to education, the most left behind has been the girl child, due to a failed African philosophic educational discourse, owing to a number of factors; ii) transformative educational discourse must deconstruct the ontology of the girl - child beyond theoretical and methodological limitations; iii) the philosophical and anthropological grounding of law, rights(equality) and justice(equity) can be demonstrated from a Thomistic perspective; iv) Girl-child right to education and the 21st century transformative discourse: equality, equity and inclusion
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    The Contextualisation of 21st Century Skills: Assessment in East Africa
    (Springer Link, 2024) Care, Esther; Giacomazzi, Mauro; Mugo, John Kabutha
    Education systems worldwide are adapting to demands from civil society and the workforce to better equip young people to function effectively in the twentyfrst century world. The lag from awareness to aspiration to policy and to practice requires communities to contribute to building knowledge, developing tools, and representing society’s needs to government. Three countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, are benefting from the efforts of a network of civil organisations working together with academia and government, which seek to enhance education provision. This introductory chapter establishes the context in which the Assessment of Life Skills and Values in East Africa initiative has developed tools to measure adolescents’ profciencies, and in so doing developed expertise in the assessment of life skills and values through a regional initiative.