Modernization versus cultural resilience in education in East Africa

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Winston Akala

The books reviewed here are Beth B. Swadener with Margaret Kabiru and Anne Njenga, Does the Village Still Educate the Child? A Collaborative Study of Changing Childrearing and Early Education in Kenya (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000), x + 322pp., US$71.50 (hbk), ISBN 0‐7914‐4757‐X, US$24.95 (pbk), ISBN 0‐7914‐4758‐8; and Amy Stambach, Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa (New York: Routledge, 2000), xv + 206pp., US$95.95 (hbk), ISBN 0‐415‐92582‐7, US$26.95 (pbk), ISBN 0‐415‐92583‐5. He has been a Fulbright fellow, pursuing a doctorate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research interest is in curricula for civic education.