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Anny Bertoli; John Teria Ng'asike; Stefania Amici; Andrew Madjar; Marek Tesar – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
This article presents the epistemological complexity inherent in the roll out of an international project on Disaster and Risk Reduction, and consequently about science education in the Indigenous context of Turkana County in Kenya. After an introduction that explains the current state of Disaster and Risk Reduction, the paper focuses on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, Science Education, Early Childhood Education
Wright, Handel Kashope, Ed.; Abdi, Ali A., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses" addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. Reflecting a range of approaches to hegemonic Euro-American paradigms that can be summarized as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Studies, Education, Epistemology
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Gitari, Wanja – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
The role of science education in rural development is of great interest to science educators. In this study I investigated how residents of rural Kirumi, Kenya, approach health and healing, through discussions and semistructured and in-depth interviews with 150 residents, 3 local herbalists, and 2 medical researchers over a period of 6 months. I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role, Science Education, Rural Development