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ERIC Number: EJ1439127
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 19
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EISSN: EISSN-1478-2103
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Educational Policies in Early Childhood Education Programs in Kenya and Nepal: Challenging Unjust Binary Mindset around Curricula Practices
Lydiah Nganga; Samara Madrid Akpovo; John Kambutu; Sapna Thapa; Agnes Muthoni Mwangi
Policy Futures in Education, v22 n6 p1150-1168 2024
Educational policies and practices in the current age of heightened globalization are increasingly grounded on unjust binary curriculum approaches that favor educational designs from Minority-World countries at the expense of epistemologies of indigenous people in Majority-World nations that are typically deemed culturally inferior (Gupta, 2015). Essentially, those opposing binaries promote neocolonial and neoliberal ideologies while disregarding lived cultural contexts of people in Majority-World countries (Lee, 2012). To grapple with this conundrum, this ethnographic study examined how educators in Kenya and Nepal (N = 26) contested, constructed, and transformed educational practices in contexts of globalization, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism. Qualitative data from four schools in Kathmandu, Nepal (16 participants) and two schools in Kenya (10 participants) revealed that educators struggled with issues of intellectual imperialism. Therefore, they strived to deconstruct the existing unjust binary curricula policies by embracing pluralist educational discourses essential to sustaining indigenous languages and dialects. In doing so, those educators focused on advancing local cultural values, rights, and ideologies without antagonizing influential stakeholders from Minority-World nations.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kenya; Nepal
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