African Science Education Gendering Indigenous Knowledge in Nigeria [Hardcover]

Based on interrogation and review of historical and current cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive curriculum and classroom analysis, this book identifies how indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more gender balanced and indigenous centered learning experience.

The book argues for the integration of African indigenous science into the secondary school curriculum as a way to strengthen students science comprehension by affirming their societys science contributions, making clear connections between Indigenous and Western science, and also as a way to promote female representation in the sciences.

This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of science education, African education, and indigenous knowledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction: African Science Education: Gendering Indigenous Knowledge in Nigeria  Jamaine Abidogun

Chapter 1:Where are the Girls?  Jamaine Abidogun

Chapter 2:Indigenous Knowledge: Its Role in Education  Steve Willis

Chapter 3:Igbo Indigenous Science: An Ethnobiologist Perspective  Fred Ozioko and Felix I. Nwafor

Chapter 4:Going to School: Nsukka Education Context  Nkiru Ohia and Jamaine Abidogun

Chapter 5:The Shalom Dream: Nigerian Based Education  Victoria Onu and Jamaine Abidogun

Chapter 6:Gendered Narratives  Sarah Nixon

Chapter 7:Integrating Indigenous Science and Technology into the Curriculum  Georgianna Saunders

Chapter 8:Creating Gender Parity: Igbo Womens Indigenous Science Knowledge Practice  Winifls,