Turkana Children's Sociocultural Practices in Science Curriculum

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.... Mehr