Multicultural education as a mechanism for promoting positive ethnicity in Kenya.
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Date
2015-03Author
Kibui, Agnes
Mwaniki, Bernard
Gichuhi, Loise
Nyaga, Grace
Kahiga, Ruth W
Ngesu, L.M
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Since the world has become a global village, the need for better understanding and communication
among peoples from different cultures is crucial. Common markets, resource shortages, ethnic conflicts,
nuclear proliferations, natural disasters, environmental problems, terrorism, epidemics and religious
intorelance need the intervention of all nations in the world. Globally, culture is one of the most
conspicuous differences that exist among people. Culture defines personal, interpersonal, and societal
development of relationships. Education, on the other hand, is an entity that has been used immensely in
promoting cultural diversity. Cross-cultural diversity in education is a major dynamic in ensuring
positive ethnicity. Negative ethnicity has been a major contributing factor towards the promotion of
conflict and destruction of human relationship. In Africa, genocides, civil wars, and hatreds have been
propagated by negative ethnicity. In Kenya, negative ethnicity has been instrumental towards social,
political, religious, and economic friction. In order to minimize negative ethnicity, multicultural
education is used as a tool for encouraging appreciation of cultural diversity in Kenya.
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Kibui, Agnes., Mwaniki, Bernard., Gichuhi, Loise Nyaga., Grace., Kahiga, Ruth W.,Ngesu, L.M(2015).Multicultural education as a mechanism for promoting positive ethnicity in Kenya. International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology, 2(3), PP.9-16Publisher
University of Nairobi