Turkana Childrens Sociocultural Practices in Science Curriculum

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ISBN: 3330073756
ISBN 13: 9783330073753
Autor: Ng’asike, John
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Umfang: 244 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.05.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
Format: 1.5 x 22 x 15
Gewicht: 381 g
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT
Artikelnummer: 2404071 Kategorie:

Beschreibung

In this book the author has demonstrated the potential of Turkana Cultural practices of their everyday nomadic survival socioculutral activities as useful concepts for bridging children understanding of scientific content taught in early childhood and lower primary schools in science curriculum in Kenyan education system. The author argued that science instruction carried out using familiar examples, such as traditional cultural knowledge of livestock husbandry, knowledge of plants, the universe, soil and water discovery creates curiosity in the learners and stimulate in children intellectual understanding of the relationship between Western scientific concepts and local ways of figuring out natural phenomena. The children are able to learn science using a familiar cultural context to ensure knowledge learnt in school is applicable locally and to the wider environment.

Autorenporträt

Dr. John Teria Ng'asike is a senior Lecturer at Mount Kenya University in the department of early childhood studies. He holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University in the United States. Dr. Ng'asike's research interest is on indigenous epistemologies and education in Pastoralist communities in Kenya.

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