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The teaching of values old and newessay 2004 • Chesaina, Ciarunji
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document discusses the teaching of cultural values in a Kenyan village called Ngecha. The focus is on the use of oral literature (mostly in the form of proverbs and stories) as vehilces for transmitting cultural values and norms from generation ...The village and its familiesessay 2004 • Whiting, Beatrice Blyth et al.
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document is a chapter from an edited volume decribing aspects of child development and community life in a Kikuyu Kenyan vilage called Ngecha. Specif focus of this document includes gender roles and family dynamics as reflected in the lived expe...Changing concepts of the good child and good motheringessay 2004 • Whiting, Beatrice Blyth et al.
Gikuyu • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document focues on cultural concepts of childhood and mothering in a Kenyan village called Ngecha. The document was originally published as a chapter in an edited volume exploring critical cultural variables affecting parent and child behavior i...