How philosopher John Dewey’s ‘school of chaos’ similar to Competency-Based Education in Kenya catapulted America to industrial giant

How philosopher John Dewey’s ‘school of chaos’ similar to Competency-Based Education in Kenya catapulted America to industrial giant

There were no rigid lessons. Children learned math by running a store, science by cooking, history by building tools. They moved. They spoke. They failed in public. Dewey treated mistakes as data, not disobedience. Knowledge came from experience, not recitation.

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Road not taken: Sifuna has this unique ability to land a point so cleanly that it travels across tribes, classes, cities, villages, diaspora…

Road not taken: Sifuna has this unique ability to land a point so cleanly that it travels across tribes, classes, cities, villages, diaspora…

The message is not subtle. It is a national attempt to manage emotions. To bring the public back down to the safe, familiar posture Kenya has perfected: do not hope too hard. Hope makes you vulnerable. Here is the sobering truth although. In many homes, ambition is treated like a dangerous animal.

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National Treasury submits mid-year review of the second performance contracting cycle

National Treasury submits mid-year review of the second performance contracting cycle

The principal secretary said leadership and supervisory support significantly influence performance outcomes. He highlighted that senior management is responsible for providing strategic direction, mobilising resources, removing bottlenecks and fostering a performance-oriented culture.

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Why Ruto’s unfinished 35-year old KPC-Ngong Forest land fraud is a stain Kenya’s judiciary

Why Ruto’s unfinished 35-year old KPC-Ngong Forest land fraud is a stain Kenya’s judiciary

The key legal question was whether the land had been properly degazetted (legally removed from forest status) before it was subdivided, allocated and later sold.

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Transition: America’s prime Black civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson, waves world last goodbye as he ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 84

Transition: America’s prime Black civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson, waves world last goodbye as he ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 84

Jesse Jackson famously marched with the Rev Martin Luther King Jr in civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and was with King the morning he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

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Romanticising fallacy that Luhyia and Luo of western Kenya are ‘genetically’ predestined to resist power

Romanticising fallacy that Luhyia and Luo of western Kenya are ‘genetically’ predestined to resist power

The argument that Luhyias and Luos are genetically predestined to resist power and is intellectually provocative, but it rests on a few assumptions that deserve serious interrogation. First, the framing that Molima (central Kenya) and Rift Valley or Kikuyus and Kalenjins are “trained to access power” while Luhyas and Luos...

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