KENYA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM.
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Paper Abstract:
Colonial government education policy. Covers period 1920 to 1939. Racial stratification of education. Colonial education system as a method to control Africans and keep them in a secondary position. Contrast of schools for European settlers with those for native Kenyans. Missionary schools. Educational opportunities for students determined by race. Actions of Kikuyu tribe to gain independent Kikuyu-operated schools.
Paper Introduction:
Kenya’s Education System, 1920-1939
Education in Kenya during its colonization was racially stratified, with varying curricula and facilities for Europeans, Asians and Africans. Sentiment in the colony was strongly in favor of such segregation. For example, Richard Frost stated in Race Against Time that Europeans in Kenya were “almost unanimously opposed to any infiltration of non-Europeans into European schools” (1978). Thus, up until Kenya gained its independence in 1963 and subsequently discarded the British system in the 1980s, educational opportunities for students in Kenya was determined almost entirely by race (KenyaWeb, 2002).
Martin Carnoy (1974) and Donald Schilling (1984) have argued that the education system as applied to black Kenyans was really a means to control Africans and inculcate within them “a sense of inferior
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Christianmissionaries schools for Africans in Kenya push for change to create a schools provide Africansonly with agricultural activism within native Africans Natsoulas In boys and The Duchess of York girls Obyerodhyambo The first Kenyan government spent percent of population received the remaining percent Obyerodhyambo Basil Davidson also In addition the African childrenreceived approximately percent began to agitate for better educational policy forAfricans a total population of over work with the Kikuyu nonethelessreserved the right These independent schools helpedmeet the growing demand for education References Carnoy M Education as cultural imperialism New York in Karamoja Uganda International Review of Mission Natsoulas T The Frost R Race against time Nairobi Transafrica Overview of
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