Obey God, obey your teacher : Teaching and learning methods experienced in three Kenyan schools

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One of our interests, as future teachers, is which role different educational strategies andmethods have in the everyday teaching and how that contributes to pupil’s social andcognitive development. Every pedagogical system and culture is time bound. Pedagogicalideas used in prevailing schools are changing continuously because of social and economicchanges and are always influenced by the actual social, political and economic ideology inrespective country.The purpose of this qualitative study is to find out how education is taking part and how it isoutlined in three schools in Kenya. We are interested in teachers’ and pupils’ opinion andreflections about the existing education, everyday teaching and the role school plays in theKenyan society.Based on our interviews and observation we have made we can state that the education inKenya is more behaviouristic and collectivistic focusing on fact knowledge and because ofthe widespread use of rewards and punishments and the role of the teacher as a model, amediator of knowledge and an authority for the pupi...