Natural Science Education, Indigenous Knowledge, and Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Schools in Kenya Toward Critical Postcolonial Curriculum Policies and Practices /

• Main Authors: O’Hern, Darren M. (Author), Nozaki, Yoshiko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2014.
• Series: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education, Research Dialogs
• Subjects: Education.; Education, general.

Through a multi-sited qualitative study of three Kenyan secondary schools in rural Taita Hills and urban Nairobi, the volume explores the ways the dichotomy between “Western” and “indigenous” knowledge operates in Kenyan education. In particular, it examines views on natural sciences expressed by th...