Research Catalog

Title

Historical and contemporary trends in the development of education in Kenya : government policy, gender and regional dimensions / Daniel N. Sifuna & Ibrahim O. Oanda.

Author

Sifuna, D. N., 1944-

Publication

Nairobi, Kenya : Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Oanda, Ibrahim O.

Description

xix, 535 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Educational provision and development in Kenya over the years, has been beset by challenges of inadequate supply. While a greater majority ofKenyans have sought access to various levels of education for purposes of economic and social mobility, social class, region and gender, have often worked either singularly or in combination to determine who goes to school, the various levels of exit and the quality of learning achieved. Analyzing these challenges and their manifestation has preoccupied educational practitioners and policy makers over the years. This book goes back to examining modes of traditional education that existed in Kenya before the establishment of modern Western formal education. By taking historical reflection, the authors show how the singular concern of Western education with laying the conditions for capitalist penetration in the colony, eroded the nature of holistic education that existed in pre-colonial Kenya, thereby planting the seeds of unending inequalities in educational provision along the lines of region, gender and overall policy formulation and implementation"--back cover.

Subject

• Education and state > Kenya
• Education > Kenya > History
• British colonies
• Education
• Education and state
• Great Britain > Education > Africa
• Africa
• Kenya

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-535).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Contextual setting to formal education; African indigenous education -- Pre-colonial Western education activities -- Colonialism and the evolution of formal education policies in Kenya -- Education developments in Kenya during the inter-war period, 1920 to 1945 -- Educational developments after independence and the deepening of regional and gender disparities, 1963 to 1975 -- International economic crisis and the decline in educational expansion and participation trends in Kenya -- Domestication of international strategies and educational developments in Kenya, 1990 to 2000 -- Redesigning new policy frameworks for educational development in Kenya for the 21st century -- Conclusions: possibilities for a new direction in educational development towards greater focus on equity and quality.

ISBN

• 9789966510068
• 9966510060

LCCN

^^2014321305

OCLC

918911277

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library