A Beacon of Hope for the Community’
The Role of Chavakali Secondary School in Late Colonial and Early Independent Kenya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8980582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Muey Ching Saeteurn (University of California, Merced, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 311-329 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853716000682 |
| OpenAlex | W2624239701 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
Situated in the densely populated former North Nyanza District of western Kenya, Chavakali secondary school was the site where the colonial regime, the nationalist government, and international ‘developmentalists’ attempted to dictate the nature of education and by extension the place of the rural citizenry during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. This goal, however, was not easily achieved because ordinary Kenyans rejected the vocational-agricultural curriculum that school officials and development specialists championed as the ideal education program for rural communities. Chavakali students from Maragoliland, in particular, recognized the inherent contradiction of the Kenyan government's agriculture-as-development model continued from the colonial era – lack of land. Realizing how bankrupt the agrarian development model really was, they used their educational training to enter the wage labor sector on better terms than as simple laborers. Chavakali's nonsensical curriculum thus hardly produced the agrarian revolution that the state hoped would stabilize the countryside in the postcolony
Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · History · South African History and Culture
Cartography and the Political Imagination
On the African waterfront
Africa since 1940
British Colonial Education in Africa
Political interference in the running of education in post-independence Kenya
Colonial Policy and Education in British East Africa, 1900-1950
Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda
Half London' in Zambia
The Report of the Kenya Land Commission, September, 1933
Neo-Traditionalism and the Limits of Invention in British Colonial Africa
Decolonization and Independence in Kenya 1940-1993
A History of the Quaker Movement in Africa
Going Their Separate Ways
The State and Schooling in Kenya
Demanding Schools
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |