Education and politics: student activism for elite recruitment in Kenya

IF 0.8 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-13 DOI:10.1080/02589001.2022.2034761

Anna Deutschmann

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Abstract

ABSTRACT African states have undergone dynamic political processes ever since their struggle for independence. Students have played an important role in political developments and triggered processes of democratisation. In the course of recent waves of protests and political activism, however, students took a more ambivalent stance against both the state and the political elite. This report is based in parts on field research. It discusses the relation between student activism and the political elite in Kenya. During the overall change in the meaning and function of higher education, universities and student activism have played an important role in political development. This report analyses the education system on the basis of (qualitative) research on education and student activism in Kenya. The paper focuses on the education system as an important factor in the recruitment of political elites.

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教育与政治:肯尼亚招收精英的学生行动主义

非洲国家自争取独立以来，经历了充满活力的政治进程。学生在政治发展中发挥了重要作用，并引发了民主化进程。然而，在最近的抗议和政治活动浪潮中，学生们对国家和政治精英采取了更加矛盾的立场。这份报告部分是根据实地调查写成的。它讨论了肯尼亚学生激进主义与政治精英之间的关系。在高等教育的意义和功能发生全面变化的过程中，大学和学生行动主义在政治发展中发挥了重要作用。本报告基于对肯尼亚教育和学生运动的(定性)研究分析了教育系统。本文着重研究了教育制度作为政治精英招募的一个重要因素。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JCAS) is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote an African-centred scholarly understanding of societies on the continent and their location within the global political economy. Its scope extends across a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines with topics covered including, but not limited to, culture, development, education, environmental questions, gender, government, labour, land, leadership, political economy politics, social movements, sociology of knowledge and welfare. JCAS welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature with a specific focus on debates and developments in Africa as part of a broader aim of contributing towards the development of viable communities of African scholarship. The journal publishes original research articles, book reviews, notes from the field, debates, research reports and occasional review essays. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics. JCAS is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October.