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The Role of Anti-Corruption Education in the Light of Aristotelian Concept of Akrasia: An Epistemic Inquiry into the Anti-corruption Initiatives in Kenya
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Published by MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome., 2013) Gunga, O. Samson; Amukowa, Wycliffe
This paper undertakes an epistemic investigation of the efforts to combat corruption in Kenya in the light of Aristotle’s concept of Akrasia, and proposes a model for educational practice for the purpose of facilitating the fight against corruption. Akrasia is taken to mean a lack of command over self, leading one to act against one’s better judgment that one ought to choose virtue against vice.
Understanding as a Concept in Education: Conceptions and Alternative Interpretations
(Journal of Educational and Social Research MCSER Publishing, Rome-Ital, 2014) Gunga, O. Samson; Embeywa, Henry Etende; Amukowa, Wycliffe
Education has largely been conceptualized as transmission and acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values so as to facilitate desirable behavior. This conceptualization presupposes knowledge, skills, attitudes and values as sufficient conditions for desirable behavior; however this paper argues that these are necessary but not sufficient without Understanding. What understanding is or is not, and how it is to be justified as an educational condition demands explicit attention