| dc.creator | Moock, Joyce L. | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-04T12:20:56Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-04T12:20:56Z | |
| dc.date | 1972 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:54:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:54:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Moock, Joyce L. (1971) Pragmatism and the primary school: the case of a non-rural village, Discussion Paper 135. Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/491 | |
| dc.identifier | 318607 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1849 | |
| dc.description | The successful adaptation of an educational system to the needs
of a particular area of a country requires that those needs be carefully
investigated and that they not be assumed apriori. Too often economic
patterns and behavior styles arg polarized as either "rural" or "urban",
"agricultural" or "industrial",or "traditional" or "modern". Such dichotomies
may exist more in the minds of the educational planners than they
do in reality. The aim of this paper is to analyse the educational needs
of one small community in Kenya in terms of its changing socio-economic
patterns and to show how attitudes towards the school system have their
roots in this setting. The data are drawn from a 19 month anthropological
study in South Maragoli Location- of Ivakamega District, Western Province.
The first section of the paper presents a short description of
Maragoli's social setting, concentrating upon those characteristics of the
area which seem to have direct bearing upon the educational system and
implications for educational polics. Parental attitudes towards the
primary school are then set against this backdrop. There follows an
examination of the processes by which these attitudes are transformed into
actions which inhibit the institution from acting as an independent variable
in the initiation of social change. In the final section, the expectations
and experiences of the school leavers are analysed within the context of the
community's educational needs. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;135 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Economic Development | |
| dc.subject | Education | |
| dc.title | Pragmatism and the primary school: the case of a non-rural village | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
