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Primary education and entrepreneurship in east Africa: a case study of private schools for the poor in Kibera(Kenya)

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par Keunne Nodem Eric
University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne - Master of Education 2010
  

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2.4 The Kenyan Independent School Association (KISA) and the Development of Private School for the Poor

One important fact that captured our attention within the focus of the study was the existence of an association bringing together all private schools entrepreneurs. The interest in understanding this association went «crescendo» as we realised that its members were all geared towards the same objective, which is ensuring a constant quality of private schools provision in their settings. Set in 1999, the association had ( we believe they still do) as priority to address the challenges faced by educational entrepreneurs with the mission to

«empower communities to engage the Government of Kenya and other stakeholders to pursue policies and actions that promote the access of all children in informal settlements to a holistic quality education» (Musani 2008:4)

Faced with all the possible challenges in their respective communities, the private school owners in Kenya (generally individuals with previous educational backgrounds) through their association are said to have been of tremendous support to the poorest and HIV/AIDS orphans. Having as premium target the poorest population, their schools are certainly not exempted from recurrent realities of the educational problems in the third world ranging from the poor infrastructures, teachers turnover to limited resources just to name a few. However existing literature does point out clearly the positive role that this association has been playing for the development of education in Kenya. In fact:

«Over the past ten years, KISA has played an active role in the independent schools sector promoting education and rights of poor children»(Musani 2008:2)

It is assumed that if given effective means of functioning, the services offered to its teachers and members could give more strength and support to the improvement of the quality of the quality of education in private schools. Nonetheless even with fewer funds their actions are already extremely remarkable enough and thus constitute a valuable tool for better days ahead of private schools in Kenya. An in-depth study of the KISA actions on the field points out:

«...the independent schools will continue to play a large role in the education sector in Kenya. By providing low-cost affordable quality education, low-income families, particularly in the urban slum areas, will rely on the independent schools for continued quality education of their children.» (Musani 2008:2)

Such actions undertaken by this group of educational entrepreneurs in Africa simply correlated with what Tooley (2006) early mentioned, that is: «The poor have not been waiting helplessly...» Indeed they have been very active especially concerning the education of their children. Their actions equally go along with what Barack Obama in his speech in Accra last July 11th 2009 urged Africans to do in order to foster development on the continent.

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