- Title
- Integrating Afrocentric approaches for meaningful learning of science concepts
- Creator
- Chikunda, Charles, Ngcoza, Kenneth M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436248
- Identifier
- vital:73252
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-3-319-45989-9
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45989-9_
- Description
- Economic and social development in any modern country re-lies heavily on a sound scientific and technological base. Es-sentially, science constitutes an area of any nation’s education system where many of the skills that are needed to stimulate development are learned, such as securing good health, fighting diseases, protecting the environment, farming and de-veloping agriculture and developing new industries and tech-nologies and even building resilience to climate change. There is a need therefore for a country to harness the intellectual and scientific capacity of its young people. Ironically, however, sci-ence (especially physical sciences) is one of the least popular areas within the educational system of most developing countries. Research shows that students’ and especially girls’ low interest in science and their relatively negative attitudes are at least partially attributed to the way science is taught at school.
- Format
- 13 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Chikunda, C. and Ngcoza, K.M., 2017. Integrating Afrocentric approaches for meaningful learning of science concepts. Schooling for sustainable development in Africa, pp.79-91
- Rights
- Publisher
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