Assessment of the Practice of Initiation of the Agikuyu Adolescents into Adulthood from the viewpoint of Ericksonian Theory of Human Development in Lim urn.
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2006-05
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Tangaza University College/Saint Mary university of Minnesota(Nairobi Campus)
Abstract
The research was on the assessment of the practice of initiation of the Agikuyu
adolescents into adulthood from the view point of Ericksonian theory of human
development in Limuru town. Parents and adolescents were interviewed. The data was
analyzed qualitatively.
The researcher found that traditional initiation had some negative influence on the
education of boys of the Agikuyu ethnic group. They were dropping out of school on
the pretext that they were now adults, indiscipline in schools and problems in paying
school fees after spending so much on traditional initiation rites.
The positive influence that traditional initiation of boys was found to have on their
education was that after initiation, some boys take schooling more seriously and work
hard as they realize that they are now adults who should take responsibility of their
actions, decisions and lives. There are a number of ways of curbing the negative
influence traditional initiation of boys has on their education, such as parents being
sensitized to explain to their on the benefits of modern education, making the boys
undergo initiation rites at an advanced age probably 1 7years to curb instances of being
lured to think that they are adults and hence drop out of school and sponsors chosen for
the initiates should be those who value modern education while in seclusion camps.
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Assessment, Initiation, Adolescents, Adulthood, Human Development in, Erickson's view