书目名称 | Contemporary Issues in African Sciences and Science Education |
编辑 | Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw,George J. Sefa Dei,Jophus An |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/237/236531/236531.mp4 |
概述 | Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope |
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描述 | In this careful articulation of science, the editors provide an intellectual marriage of Indigenous science and science education in the African context as a way of revising schooling and education.They define science broadly to include both the science of the natural/physical/biological and the ‘science of the social’. It is noted that the current policy direction of African education continues to be a subject of intense intellectual discussion.Science education is very much at the heart of much current debates about reforming African schooling. Among the ways to counter-vision contemporary African education this book points to how we promote Indigenous science education to improve upon African science and technology development in general.The book also notes a long-standing push to re-examine local cultural resource knowings in order to appreciate and understand the nature, content and context of Indigenous knowledge science as a starting foundation for promoting African science and technology studies in general. It is argued that these interests and concerns are not mutually exclusive of each other but as a matter of fact interwoven and interdependent.The breadth of coverage of |
出版日期 | Book 2012 |
关键词 | science education; indigenous science |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-702-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-6091-702-8 |
copyright | SensePublishers 2012 |