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For centuries before the widespread dominance of formal education in Kenya, indigenous African education existed to accomplish two main goals. First, indigenous education promoted the morals and practices that shaped the daily lives of specific ethnic groups. Second, this education aimed to transmit indigenous knowledge concerning humans and their relationship with the surrounding biophysical environment from one generation to the next (Mungai, 2002).
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O’Hern, D.M., Nozaki, Y. (2014). Kenyan Education. In: Natural Science Education, Indigenous Knowledge, and Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Schools in Kenya. Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-542-7_4
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