Implementing 5-pillars to create a new society, new nation, and new leadership quality in kenya

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dc.creatorGichuru, Francis Xavier
dc.date09/25/2012
dc.dateTue, 25 Sep 2012
dc.dateTue, 25 Sep 2012 12:49:24
dc.dateTue, 25 Sep 2012 12:49:24
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-18T11:28:42Z
dc.date.available2015-03-18T11:28:42Z
dc.descriptionThe 8th annual Ethics Conference
dc.descriptionIn this discourse, we deliberately climb down from the academic citadel and attempt to put in practice what we have authoritatively identified as five pillars that characterised the African traditional education process, a bold decant of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) from Africa. Discounting any controversies, we have propounded these pillars as the sound foundation from the African traditional culture on which the modern Kenya (and, by extension, Africa and the wider global family) can rediscover sanity in her socioeconomic development agenda, especially now that she has launched a new constitutional order. This is, consequently, a proposal for resolving a predicament that has dragged the country backwards since independence in her attempt to advance in favour of the common good. In view of that, therefore, we note that the cultural ethos of the Kenyan society today has been warped by modernisation and globalisation. During the cultural transformation that took place when Kenyans/Africans were adapting to modernisation, something must have gravely gone wrong. Kenyans understood globalisation or modernisation to mean indiscriminately adopting foreign values and lifestyles, dropping what is African or indigenous, wrongly believing that whatever was practised in traditional society, however positive, was not good. This understanding left Kenyans in the confused state as seen today, and Kenyans must take responsibility for this.
dc.description.abstractIn this discourse, we deliberately climb down from the academic citadel and attempt to put in practice what we have authoritatively identified as five pillars that characterised the African traditional education process, a bold decant of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) from Africa. Discounting any controversies, we have propounded these pillars as the sound foundation from the African traditional culture on which the modern Kenya (and, by extension, Africa and the wider global family) can rediscover sanity in her socioeconomic development agenda, especially now that she has launched a new constitutional order. This is, consequently, a proposal for resolving a predicament that has dragged the country backwards since independence in her attempt to advance in favour of the common good. In view of that, therefore, we note that the cultural ethos of the Kenyan society today has been warped by modernisation and globalisation. During the cultural transformation that took place when Kenyans/Africans were adapting to modernisation, something must have gravely gone wrong. Kenyans understood globalisation or modernisation to mean indiscriminately adopting foreign values and lifestyles, dropping what is African or indigenous, wrongly believing that whatever was practised in traditional society, however positive, was not good. This understanding left Kenyans in the confused state as seen today, and Kenyans must take responsibility for this.
dc.formatNumber of Pages:11 p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11071/3323
dc.languageeng
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