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 (Yatitaet 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 and derive a conceptual model based on the findings.The specific objectives of
the study were to: identify and locate the concept of education in the Kamuratanet
context; identify characteristics of educators in the Kamuratanet context; examine the
influence of Kamuratanet on social behaviour management on learning content;describe
structures employed by Kamuratanet in implementing social behaviour curriculum;
identify educational contexts used by Kamuratanet in dispensing its self-regulating social
behaviour content and finally describe the inbuilt self-regulating mechanisms of
behaviour management deployed in Kamuratanet. The theoretical foundation of this
study hinges on three premises: Functionalist perspective originated by Emile Durkheim;
Social Cultural Theory by Lev Vygotsky; and the Social Learning Theory by Albert
Bandura. 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 sociolization. Twelve participants informed the research where data
was generated through intensive face to face semi-structured oral interviews.
Consequently, a multi-method approach was used in data analysis in order to enhance
findings.The findings of the study determined existence of educational self-regulating
social mechanisms of behaviour management that have also been used in this study to
derive a conceptual model for behaviour management,relevant to the psychology of
African behaviour management.The conceptual model-Structural Collectivist Behaviour
(SCB model)- is derived from Self-regulating social structures employed by the Kalenjin
to collectively regulate the behaviour of community
