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To understand why we have a GERM (Global education reform movement) problem, it's important to understand the chaos of empire. #EducationcaptureKE #Thread
1. With the oil crisis of the 1970s, American profits reduced, and companies decided to compensate for that loss.
1. With the oil crisis of the 1970s, American profits reduced, and companies decided to compensate for that loss.
2. As all selfish corporates do, they look at workers' salaries and benefits as a waste of money, and decide to cut them off.
The problem is that the unions wouldn't let them get away with it.
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The problem is that the unions wouldn't let them get away with it.
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Side bar: What are unions?
Unions are groups of workers legally registered to negotiate for workers' pay and benefits. If unions go on strike, the law prohibits the employers from firing the workers.
Many of our disappearing rights were fought for by unions. #educationcaptureKE
Unions are groups of workers legally registered to negotiate for workers' pay and benefits. If unions go on strike, the law prohibits the employers from firing the workers.
Many of our disappearing rights were fought for by unions. #educationcaptureKE
The story of British media and Jeremy Corbyn is a story about how the media picks one narrative, drowns everyone in it, finds irrational and emotional supporters to rant about it, until their story looks like the reality. Kenya media has done the same with BBI and CBC.
The media tactic is to overwhelm us with a single story and go crazy or silence us when we introduce a diversity of stories. I have been called names by CBC supporters less for opposing CBC and more for complicating the stories. The danger of the single story by Chimamanda.
If you look at the pro-CBC replies to my tweets, you will notice that they don't respond to what I actually say. They'll say employment, I'll say employment is an economic issue, then they'll respond using different words about skills that kids need to earn a living.
I started #MaishaKazini because of the lies about education and work that we were being told in defence of CBC. I thought the media and NGO people had flawed ideas and that we were having a debate. Because I was not being heard, I started a channel.
youtube.com/c/MaishaKazini
youtube.com/c/MaishaKazini
I tackled these lies:
1. We don't need theory, only skills
2. Unemployment comes from bad education
3. Exam obsession is caused by the curriculum
4. Our education is too theoretical
All these lies are racist and designed to keep Africans from thinking
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1. We don't need theory, only skills
2. Unemployment comes from bad education
3. Exam obsession is caused by the curriculum
4. Our education is too theoretical
All these lies are racist and designed to keep Africans from thinking
#EducationCaptureKE
With @m_ogada we showed again and again how Western capital and Kenyan elites are determined to separate our work from the dignity and material benefits that we should get from our work.
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The roots of TVET are plantation slavery. Once slavery ends, the US had to find a way of making sure that African Americans dont get an education that leads to citizenship. That model was brought to Kenya in the 1920s.
A task force on TVET is a colonial joke.
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A task force on TVET is a colonial joke.
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But the racist argument that Africans don't need to think, they only need to work with our hands, led to a misdiagnosis of colonial education as theoretical instead of practical.
Our education system isn't theoretical. It's imperial.
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Our education system isn't theoretical. It's imperial.
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Another argument of GERM is that we have unemployment because kids don't have practical skills.
We have unemployment those who get rich on the work of others need the unemployed to be so desperate that they sell their labor for zero.
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We have unemployment those who get rich on the work of others need the unemployed to be so desperate that they sell their labor for zero.
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There's no point of a state capture investigation when you gazette education capture. Kenyans think what power wants to capture is the state, but what it really wants to capture is the children. Because they tie down power for the next two generations. Nkt.
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Foreigners poach the best talent from Kenya, crush their innovations, give them jobs in global organizations to detach them from contact with people on the ground, then weaponize those they poached to destroy our school system. And then we think state capture is only about money.
Wazungu know that to capture our thinking and our youthful energy is to capture everything, but Hustler government is stuck in the colonial narrative of TVET.
Would the colonialists have come up with TVET if they thought it would lead to development?
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Would the colonialists have come up with TVET if they thought it would lead to development?
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I'm no longer in support of CBC. I'm done. I'm not going to say "maybe if..." anymore. My position is we go back to 8.4.4, and we reform our own system, with our own teachers.
It's ok if I'm alone. I've made my peace with this position.
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It's ok if I'm alone. I've made my peace with this position.
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Not that kids go back to grade 3, but they go to std 7 in 8.4.4. Teachers understand 8.4.4 because they've been doing it for years. They can fill in the gaps they notice, and suggest how we can reform our education, our way.
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CBC can't be fixed because it wasn't ours to start with. Our schools system was infiltrated by the GERM (global education reform movement) who took us for a ride for 5 years. They captured the narrative, they captured the media, they captured @EduMinKenya
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