| dc.creator | Kinyanjui, Kabiru | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-14T11:57:59Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-14T11:57:59Z | |
| dc.date | 1979 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:58:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:58:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Kinyanjui, Kabiru. (1979) Education for rural development in Kenya: a critical note. Discussion Paper 264, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/694 | |
| dc.identifier | 317426 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1959 | |
| dc.description | This paper emphasises the subordinate role that education plays in the
process of employment creation and national development. Evidence to support
this view is drawn from an analysis of the aims, structure and content of the
education system both in colonial and independent Kenya. For example, the
appearance of the unemployed school leavers in the labour market was seen as an
outcome of an education system that inculcates into the minds of pupils values
and attitudes which would not make them accept agricultural and other manual pursuits
in the rural environment. However, there is overwhelming historical
evidence to show that the educational planners have vigorously promoted an
educational curriculum that is supposed to cater for the rural needs. The
educational changes and programmes such as agriculture and technical education
advocated in post-colonial Kenya as measures to deal with educated unemployed
are not at all new, as similar programmes were initiated during the colonial
period without much success. The failure of these efforts suggests that the
problems of the educated unemployed and national development are rooted in the
structure of the political - economy of the society and not in the education
system. A list of both educational and rural programmes which should receive
priority is proposed in a context that demands progressive diversion of national
resources from formal education to productive economic investments. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;264 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Rural Development | |
| dc.subject | Education | |
| dc.title | Education for rural development in Kenya: a critical note | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
