WANDIA NJOYA: CBC is Not A Solution To Kenya's Education Crisis, The Problem I s Politics.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- GUEST: Prof. Wandia Njoya- Associate Professor, Language and Performing Arts Department, Daystar University
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I literally posted a comment on the video with the lady education expert to bring on Dr. Wandia and here she is, i'm sooooo excited, this woman is among the most intelligent educators i know.
Teachers are not the only ones frustrated by the systemic culture of "punishing" thinkers who create new pathways at work, it has happened to me a lot in the private sector, we have a crabs in a bucket mentality; it is painful and frustrating to see how complacency has pervaded our way of life.
Our education failure is a consequencet of our failure in self determination and the incessant need to be westernized; nothing happens in a vacuum.
Dr. Wandia i applaud you for always challenging how we think, you are trying to kill the monster of lazy thinking and are coming up against alot of opposition but don't give up, you are doing an excellent job. Her youtube channel, Maisha Kazini, for those interested in intellect based conversations, is a wellspring of challenging thought processes
So it was you? ☺I didn't want to show up because I'm so tired of Kenyans' resistance to thinking. In fact I wanted to regret showing up again. Keep doing what you're doing. Thank you for your support. We have to rescue the mind of Kenyans.
@@MaishaKazini I love love love your content. The lecture you gave your students on Freedom or Fear (forgive me if i can't remember the title well) has been playing in my mind as i intend to take on a masters degree abroad; i've been socialized in the school system to be fearful of education because of the grading system which requires craming and regurgitation while i prefer to study and tell the examiner what i understood from the study; the frustration i have got becaue of this is mind boggling and yet when i listen to you, you keep pushing your students to interact with knowledge and encourage them to think.
You are building the next generation of innovators and creators, do NOT give up, it may seem from all the noise out here that you are not making headway yet i tell you, there are those like me who are listening and being moulded and encouraged. You are doing that Wangari Maathai type of work. Thank you for your tireless work in educating this nation.
Like her alarcrity of thought
❤this lady is brilliant Kenyan education system need to change so many families are stuck
You heard it in the Situation Room again: we have a philosophic crisis, and we are pretending it doesn't stink😢 Great pick of the proverb. Really connects our own anciet African knowledge to western philosophy. Friendship is a big question and a big part of our lives.
Such a beautiful brain we need more of you
Dr Njoya is a leader with great understanding and great vision. Thank you for bringing her today. Arudi tena please.
prof wandia njoya should be an education minister someday, we really need her intelligence in that sector
I agree and hope more kenyans vote and choose leaders based on such knowledge and wisdom and good intentions for our country
Great conversation!
I wonder if there has been, scouting of best practices or how education or schooling work in other regions.
I see how education is set in Germany, it's actually aligned with the economy, such that there are three school exit points and still having an avenue to go for the highest level , when a student wants to.
Our Kenyan schooling system breeds conformists and too much academized groups, because of suppression of inquiry/questioning on the justication of discipline.
Being one of those who have been informed by philosophy, i therefore question/wonder, could it be a solution to create small industries, where pupils and students could have some weeks for practical in their education system?
I see the system in Germany, where an economy is based on SMEs(KUM)
She is a very brilliant kenyan! I wonder why she was not appointed to any of these committee. Where do the bureaucrats in Kenya get their opinions from? I am an ordinary citizen and I have read a few of Prof Wandia`s opinions. She comes out as one very deep thinker.
One has to hear or read her ideas once to know the depth of knowledge she has.
The fact that she says "I don`t know" is very significant. It says it all.
I have never heard any other "expert" on his show, in government or any other pubic forum say that!
Since when does kenya reward merit
I'm glad she is not on those committees, she won't be heard, this is how we reward our thinkers, she needs to blaze her own trail without the shackles of govenrment appointments. I see her work echo that of Wangari Maathai, a lone wolf bravely challenging the system. I hope we get to see her work celebrated more while she is yet living as opposed to Wangari, whose work we now celelbrate because we can go ride an picnic at Karura forest.
Beautiful conversation there. I think being human has been sacrificed by our education system and critical thinking has been pushed away. As Prof. has said, we need to think of an education that is human, African and encourages innovation and creativity. Also let teachers be creative in their teaching. Reading books should be encouraged to children from an early age. Subjects such as Philosophy, Psychology and History should be a must in all classes. But our history should also be be from us, our elders, personal experiences and and not the ones in books only. We should continue asking questions about CBC If we are no help out country.
Here in the villages just by observation most of us are seeing a trend that the education system being practiced in kenya is horribly heading in the wrong direction, hii kitu haisaidii mtu mweusi just expensive and nuisance for nothing.
What did the Germans, Japanese, Chinese do to ensure they export goods and services to the rest of the world or offshoring jobs.
WOW!
That Ugandan proverb has a Jamaican equivalent: There are two kinds of friends. Those who will help you plant a tree and those who will come to sit under it!
Wandia Njoyas knowledge flows like a river, you can always catch more of her insights at Maisha Kazini channel.
I looooooove her channel, i have been in these comments trying to recruit others to join the thinking nation at her channel
This young prof must be the minister for education.
She must. We should choose wisely
It true that carlie francis remember Jaramogi not yet uhuru
The problem with Kenya is the majority of boomers
why don't you have a deaf interpreter
Is the problem the Kenyan educational system really ? everyone needs to go back to understand the world monetary system. What is money ? where does it come from i.e. how is it created? How does the economy work? everything we do in on earth is because of money whether we are teachers, politicians, or religious leaders. It is easy to blame the education system, However, the analogy behind it is that education system is influenced by the political system (bureaucracy) which is in turn controlled by the monetary system. The monetary system (at the top of the pyramid) affects everything because people do not understand what money is and how it works.
Most teachers are cogs in the wheel of the bureaucratic systems mostly unknowingly because they were indoctrinated by the same system in order to get a job and a wage (money). They create a self reinforcing cycle of misinformation and indoctrination to the generations they teach ( so as to create future generation which will also be paid with ( money) But what is money? The world will always rant about, education, religious, political systems but if they understood the monetary system there would be a great revolution.
You have a point there and yet several things can be true at the same time. The education system in Kenya is not setting us up to win, money system or not. Why do we have electrical and elecronic engineers graduate in this country who cannot, in 2023, build simple machines that Kenya and Africa require to solve everyday problems like pressing cocounut milk or oils, chopping veggies, drying our clothes during those rainy and cold Kenyan "winter" months? My electronic engineer friend told me that they mostly leant how to assemble machines not build them. How is this not a faulty education system issue? I would argue that where my argument intersects with your money argument is that our government refuses to fund research development (the money meets the education system in this equation)
I would also like to know how China got to where they are? I bet it has to do with educating their people to be innovators and funding the education that gets them there
Africa is under colonial systems, from governing, eduction, monetary, and even a white god in the skies 😂😂
Yeah différence between money and currency ..for now people dont know but there'll Côme à time everybody will understand
There's a sense in which Professor is trying to help us identify the issues that bedevil our education system. But again, she seems unable to land her own thoughts at a particular point. She says "I don't know, I just don't know.....Lord, I just don't know..." a million times. Finally, she says we might need to entertain the idea of having an ecosystem that goes beyond but also includes education. She disagrees with the idea of kids playing with mud as an expression of where they are at. She feels like parents should come in, yet also keep their distance. Listening to her, you feel like you are having some kind of "kizungu-zungu." Like to ask, exactly what are the issues and what are we needing to do or not do?
What a silly thing to say. Is she God to know everything? And then "she disagrees with kids playing in the mud?" She did not say that. She said that the Kenya education bureaucracy would not allow it.
She was also very clear that this demand for definitions and issues is a war on thinking.
It's very strange that there's a propaganda onslaught against any criticism of CBC. What are you scared of? CBC was implemented. You won! Rest on your laurels and stop being nervous. Enjoy your victory.
I think you should listen to the interview again. Apart from the "I don't knows" which really have nothing to do with not knowing, none of the rest of what you've said happened in Wandia's responses.
Imagine being a teacher and telling the student "I dont know"
@@njoroge2061 One of the most tragic things that has happened in the Kenyan Academia, especially among those people born between 1963-1983, is that they were all taught to respond to everything by way of rebelling. They believe in countering everything and defying everyone. Sadly, the current generation of leaders in the Academia were all shaped not by creativity and objectivity in their thinking but by this form of raw activism and unrestrained rebellion. These are people who will violently point out everything that's "... all wrong, very wrong and so unacceptable...," without presenting anything that is superior or better. They prefer being philosophical about kila kitu. They have lots of grievances about everything. They can debate and argue about all things as long as they aren't the ones responsible for providing new directions and models. We all agree CBC is not good for our kids. But again, the fact that our best brains are not able to prosecute superior & solid options is a worse problem. Tuko na shida.
@@njoroge2061 Teachers should accept and show students that they don't know. And take their 'don't know' and point it to the direction of curiosity. It is very humbling and a good example to show that you don't know.
Sounds like our education system, is turning into some chaos.
Why Kenya let’s outsiders dictate how our education should be like, no outsiders can tell America,china,Europe how their education should be like
I dont think kenya has the capacity to handle CBC. The beneficiaries of CBC are the printers of the books. We do not have enough classrooms for every student in kenya, we do not have enough desks, teachers etc. How will you tell us that CBC will work? . first we needed to have the structures-classrooms, desks), then the labs (computer labs, first aid kits , farm tools, carpentry tools, knitting tools, mechanical tools, architectural tools etc) CBC was a rushed programme.
You know what? You can't talk of education when you're not willing to listen and engage. CBC has worked NOWHERE. NOWHERE. Because it's a crazy idea that came from Microsoft and other companies who want to make money from education. That was addressed in the conversation but you clearly didn't listen to it. How do you talk of education when you don't want to think. It's very strange.
I just wonder how well thought out, in terms of financing, this education system is, how were the poor Kenyans in urban cities and the rural parents supposed to finance the stuff needed to learn? The middle class parents complain all the time about the many things students are required to provide for homework.
He government brought in an expensive education system with no plan on the government doing it's part
Kwani Eric alienda wapi??
Labda vacation, I miss his voice
It's very difficult to counter professors in languages...I appreciate Prof. Sandals, comments but she appears too strong on theoretical attributes and lucks the practical bits to align this education subject...the A levels of the past as learners were doing so to get employed and help their parents...but its agreeable as a country we should be careful when each time we tend to align ourselves with the West..
Here's what is soooo strange: people who disagree with her can't point to what she actually says. They point at who she is. Mara "why is she saying she doesn't know," another one saying "professors in languages"... mara "she's like Prof Sandals" (whoever that is). You're talking about education and yet being anti-reason. That doesn't make sense, and that's the problem she's criticizing. How can education be discussed with people who refuse to reason?
Mwalimu needs a whole series to articulate the problems at hand. This is a step in the right direction.
I feel she is being too 'nice' to the pastors and politicians.
I wouldn't spare them!