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Title: | Harambee! Educational Policy, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Rural Community Self-Help in Kenya |
Author: | Keller, Edmond J. |
Year: | 1977 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | Spring |
Pages: | 86-106 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | educational policy secondary education Education and Oral Traditions Politics and Government Economics and Trade Development and Technology Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Women's Issues |
Abstract: | In the immediate post-independence era, public officials initiated a policy of encouraging rural communities to establish secondary schools on a self-help or Harambee basis. Purpose was to increase the number of secondary places available to qualified students, and to aid the country in addressing itself to an acute African manpower shortage in skilled and professional positions in both the public and private sectors. Rather than making a positive contribution to national development, the movement has contributed to an increase in the disparity in the quality of education between government-aided and self-help schools and exacerbated ethnic, regional, and class imbalances in educational opportunity. Notes. |