Analysis Of The Karrayu People Of Ethiopia

Our research will focus on the Karrayu people of Ethiopia, and their understanding of both western education and their own family values. This will not only allow for the Karrayu to make an informed, and objective decision regarding education, but it will also ensure better cross-cultural understanding among the Karryau, and Western society. Our team has learned much from the video about the Karrayu people, but there are still many gaps concerning their understanding of Western education and how that interacts with their ideas of family values. The main issue seen is that it isn’t clear what exactly the Karrayu think of when they discuss school. We don’t know if anyone has explained the advantages that schooling can have in a Western society. …show more content…
They may conflict in ways that Westerners wouldn’t understand. They might harmonize in ways that the Karrayu didn’t think of. Whatever the outcome, we need to get these questions answered. Our main tool of learning the Karrayu’s understanding of education is interviews with several members of the Karrayu people. We would need to interpret how people from several different backgrounds in the community understand education in order to get a fairly broad interpretation of their understanding. This will require interviews that are structured enough so that one interview can be applied to several different people. At the same time, however, they must be unstructured enough to let the interviewees have a free range to talk about education as they understand it. One specific group that would be of special interest to us is that of the people that witnessed the Western schools in the Karrayu’s region being built. If we’re able to talk to them we will be able to gain knowledge of how these initial constructions affected the …show more content…
There is a real temptation to not inform the Karrayu people of why we will be living with them so that we might gain the most unbiased and pure view of their family values as they understand them. In order to avoid this we shall be sure to discuss the reasons of our desire to be “adopted” by a family and what exactly we are searching for in our research with the Karrayu people before performing any research. We shall also be sure to have a discussion with the family that each person shall be staying with to ensure that they understand what this “adoption” means. Along with immersing ourselves into a Karrayu family, we will also run a few interview with the Karrayu. These will help add to our resources to pull from when we come to a conclusion on what we understand their values to be. Also, with this information, we will be able to start to think about how Western education and the Karrayu family values interact with each other. Once the team comes to a conclusion on things we shall first present our ideas of their concepts of education and family values to the Karrayu people to help them understand these concepts as we interpret them. Once we have that discussion with them, we shall present this information to those who interact with the Karrayu people, desire to build Western-style schools in the area, or both, so that they can be aware of these concepts as the Karrayu understand