A Critique of Education for Liberation Towards the Achievement of Kenyan Vision 2030
Abstract
Kenya as a country is focusing to be fully industrialised. Having attained independence in 1963,
the Kenyan government from the first to the current one have legislated various policy
frameworks that would guarantee a good welfare for the people of Kenya with emphasis being
focused on obliteration of poverty, ignorance and disease. This philosophic study launched a
critique of the education system in Kenya focusing on its effectiveness in liberating the Kenyan
people and enabling them to focus their energies on the realisation of the vision 2030. The
research analysed various education theories and practices that focus on education for liberation
and the effects of liberation on the overall development of the nation. It was found out that
perennial, progressive and pragmatic approaches to education in Kenya have been employed and
contributed much to the current status of education. However, it is noted that much of these
theories and practices have not worked well to solve the problems and in certain instances have
exacerbated the problems. It was identified that anti-social conditions such as corruption,
radicalisation, the culture of impunity and ethnicity are likely to curtail the country from
achieving the projected vision 2030.Ubuntu an African philosophy of education has been
discussed and approved as the requisite philosophy that maximises liberation. The study
recommends for heutagogy and Ubuntugogy as educational paradigms that would guarantee
liberation that is accommodative with respect to African value systems. The study further
recommends for restructuring of the technical and vocational curriculum to be in indigenous
languages and also emphasising on social studies and adult education that focuses on the role of
liberating education on the realisation of Kenya’s vision 2030.
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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