Abstract:
African cultural practices and traditions provided individuals with socially mediated contexts of behaviour adaptation and learning. With Westernization most children today have few structures to learn social self-regulating. The role of cultural structures, such as Circumcision (Kamuratanet in Kalenjin) was explored for its potential educational value and how it provided initiates with contexts for self-regulating behaviour management. The main purpose of this study was to carry out a qualitative research into Kamuratanet as an Educational self-regulating social mechanism of behaviour management among the Kalenjin with specific reference to identifying educational contexts used by Kamuratanet in dispensing its self-regulating social behaviour content. The theoretical foundation of this study hinges on the Functionalist perspective originated by Emile Durkheim. The study was qualitative, informed by Interpretivist paradigm and guided by Ethnographic research design. Purposive and Snowball sampling procedures were used to get participants with experience, deep knowledge and an understanding of the Kalenjin cultural systems of socialization. Twelve participants informed the research through intensive interviews. Consequently, a multi-method approach was used in data analysis in order to enhance findings. The findings of the study determined existence of specific educational contexts used to dispense self-regulating social mechanisms of behaviour management, relevant to the psychology of African behaviour management