Kitambaa

A Convivial Future-Oriented Framework for Kinangop’s Learning Hub

Bibliographic Data

ID22048824
AuthorsCaroline Kuhn (0000-0003-0393-6093, Bath Spa University, corresponding author), Mary Warui (African Conservation Centre), Dominic Kimani (0000-0001-5075-0369, African Conservation Centre)
Year2024
Volume14
Issue5
Pages465
Publication date2024-04-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducation Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2227-7102 • E-ISSN: 2227-7102
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/educsci14050465
OpenAlexW4395676080
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited27

The aim of this paper, and more generally, our project “Impact from the ground” (a multi-stage ongoing project), is to reimagine education so that it transcends the walls and harsh constraints of a “universal one size fits all” education. To achieve this, we propose a framework that will inform the design of a participatory approach to co-create a learning hub (an informal lifelong learning opportunity) with and within the community. To weave this framework, we explore the current landscape of education, looking at the challenges that youth from rural settings face to complete their studies in urban universities, and the difficulties they experience when looking for jobs after having done so. We briefly explain our research project and contextualize it in Kinangop, a small region in the Nyandarua County in Kenya, where we explored the enablers and constraints people face to engage in social innovation. We proceed to imagine an alternative education that is local and organic, with different principles and theories weaved into a, kitambaa in Swahili that serves as the ground for an education intervention that is meaningful, binding, and bonding for the community members. In so doing, we aim to center matters of knowledge production as multi-epistemic conversations, situating those at the margins of epistemic divisions at the center of productive and creative debates

Business · Knowledge management · Mathematics education · Process management · Computer Science · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Higher Education Learning Practices · Psychology

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