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This religiosity was bound to happen. You know why?
Because when tradition and culture were captured by the elite, the hustlers only recourse to extra-cultural authority was evangelical religion. @jkobuthi alluded to this in our conversation on philosophy.
Because when tradition and culture were captured by the elite, the hustlers only recourse to extra-cultural authority was evangelical religion. @jkobuthi alluded to this in our conversation on philosophy.
.@chris_mungai didn't just allude to it. She predicted it four years ago. The essence of evangelicalism is do-it-yourself. You don't need to think, or be in an institution. All cultures are "equal," so colonialism is supposedly not a problem. theelephant.info/features/2018/…
To avoid going the American way, we needed to put more energy and time into crafting a Kenyan theology that speaks against injustice and speaks for the poor. But what did the snobbish PMC do? They told those of us who wanted to do the work that we were backward anti-secularists.
These are the gaps in the CBC discussion:
1. We have glorified curriculum over every other aspect of what goes on in the classroom. We Kenyans have been boxed by GoK into thinking that curriculum is everything, and GoK has an interest in making us think that way. #cbcmustfall
1. We have glorified curriculum over every other aspect of what goes on in the classroom. We Kenyans have been boxed by GoK into thinking that curriculum is everything, and GoK has an interest in making us think that way. #cbcmustfall
The most urgent reforms we needed in the school system was not curriculum content but pedagogy. We needed a new way to teach reading, and that had already been developed was starting to be implemented. The results were amazing, teachers, parents and kids were excited.
We also needed the education to stop being tied to exams, because it was making teachers drill and torture students so that parents are happy with exam results. But that is a philosophical and economic problem, not a curriculum one. Exam obsession is fixed OUTSIDE the classroom.
Kenyans don't realize what madharau "competence" is. Competence is not what you think. You think it's about ability to do a job well. But that's not what competence is.
Competence is bare minimum skills. It's not excellence. It is not creativity.
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Competence is bare minimum skills. It's not excellence. It is not creativity.
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If someone is employed to be an editor but cannot write, that's incompetence. It means the person lacks the basic skills of an editor.
But you can have a person who can write and edit well, but is not suited to edit a biology book because of their limited knowledge in biology.
But you can have a person who can write and edit well, but is not suited to edit a biology book because of their limited knowledge in biology.
That is not incompetence. It is simply the limits of that person's knowledge. You can either take them for a biology class or get someone else with biological knowledge. But to call that editor incompetent is a stretch.
The same thing with education.
The same thing with education.
Either we destroy the entire school system, from ECD to university, or we create alternative avenues to knowledge acquisition and certification.
There are no two ways about it. The monopoly of the colonial school system is destroying us. #CBCmustfall #TeachandGoHomeKE
There are no two ways about it. The monopoly of the colonial school system is destroying us. #CBCmustfall #TeachandGoHomeKE
Our colonial school system, run from Jogoo House, cheats administrators and teachers that we're SOOOOO important, that Kenyans cannot succeed without going through the nonsense we teach and the violence with which we cane.
We educators a reality check. We're not gods.
We educators a reality check. We're not gods.
This arrogance has made us build inspectorates upon inspectorates. We're wasting so much money on torturing and monitoring teachers, on exams and on verification of qualifications. The money we spend on this bs, useless work could go to libraries, innovation, sports and the arts.
I'm up looking at materials on the origins of competence based approaches (CBAs).
The more I read, the more I get shocked. I thought I had seen it all.
CBAs have been pushed by @OECD on virtually all countries on behalf of international business interests. #CBCMustfall
The more I read, the more I get shocked. I thought I had seen it all.
CBAs have been pushed by @OECD on virtually all countries on behalf of international business interests. #CBCMustfall
OECD created a competency arms race in Europe. It used PISA rankings to tell European countries how badly their education systems were, and then European politicians, without thinking, used those rankings to scare their populations into accepting CBAs. #cbcmustfall
Basically, it's psyops that operates like a bandwagon fallacy:
1. Rank country education systems,
2. Politicians panic that their country is not no 1
3. They ask "what should we do to be no 1"
3. Poof! Give them competency based approach! #CBCmustfall oecd.org/pisa/
1. Rank country education systems,
2. Politicians panic that their country is not no 1
3. They ask "what should we do to be no 1"
3. Poof! Give them competency based approach! #CBCmustfall oecd.org/pisa/
"Nurturing talent" has no business in education. It's one of the damaging ideas in CBC. Just like I've told artists to stop calling themselves talented and demand respect and renumeration for their work, parents need to stop talking of talent when it comes their kids' education.
"Talent" is a terrible concept. It encourages kids not to work and teachers not to teach. Then they give the excuse that the kids are "not talented."
Talent also encourages prejudice. Kids in RV could not be given maths education if teachers say the kids' talent is in running.
Talent also encourages prejudice. Kids in RV could not be given maths education if teachers say the kids' talent is in running.
This talent nonsense could see schools in uthamakistan getting all the resources and then were told it's because the kids are more "talented" than kids in northern Kenya.
You've heard this talent nonsense before. Like Kikuyu "talent for business" to wash wash tenderprenuering.
You've heard this talent nonsense before. Like Kikuyu "talent for business" to wash wash tenderprenuering.
I'm now sitting to read the CBC petition in detail.
This one made me think: I cant, for the love of God, imagine why Kenyans who went through 8.4.4 are accepting to be scapegoats of the elites. That's not humility. It's trauma.
And why do we accept abuse of our kids? Eesh.
This one made me think: I cant, for the love of God, imagine why Kenyans who went through 8.4.4 are accepting to be scapegoats of the elites. That's not humility. It's trauma.
And why do we accept abuse of our kids? Eesh.
And by whose standards are 8.4.4s judged incompetent? By the standards of Mr. "the government loses 2bn shillings a day"? Mr 7trn shilling debt is calling you incompetent?
Haki Kenyans have a high tolerance for abuse.
Haki Kenyans have a high tolerance for abuse.
Haiya, kumbe exporting labor was a Jubilee policy? WTH! I kept wondering why GoK officials kept promising to send us abroad: doctors, nurses, even plumbers and masons (yes), marine workers to stay on ships for six months away from home...
Haki Muigai is a proper slave exporter.
Haki Muigai is a proper slave exporter.
CBC is based on a hoax of "education reform," where tech companies and businesses adopt the progressive language of John Dewey. So they sell flowers like "individual learning" or "talent," but mean something different from what parents hear.
We have to understand: CBC is spin.
We have to understand: CBC is spin.
When CBC promoters say "individual learning," or "self-driven learning," what they don't tell you is that they'll sit kids in front of computers and let them learn on their own. If parents are rich enough to help, sawa. If not, then the kids are "not talented." #CBCmustfall
CBC was based on the model of Bridge Academies. The idea was to put kids in front of an untrained teacher who reads out what is on the tablet.
KICD were bureaucrats who could not understand these politics. They bought the hype. #CBCMustfall
KICD were bureaucrats who could not understand these politics. They bought the hype. #CBCMustfall
I have read the document on which CBC is based. There're lots of issues on that document that bother me. These include;
1. It assumes that there was no education system in Kenya before CBC. Instead of building on what was there it imposes a system straight from another country
1. It assumes that there was no education system in Kenya before CBC. Instead of building on what was there it imposes a system straight from another country
2. It ignores all the realities that exist in Kenya and assumes that what has worked elsewhere will work here. The countries quoted in the document such as Germany, Malaysia, Finland, Sweden, India have different economic and cultural realities
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3. It assumes that all the infrastructure, manpower and materials to run CBC exist in the country which is not correct
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