ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of Indigenous Science contributions within Igbo society using a syncretic analysis that purposefully combines Indigenous Science and Western Science to retain and develop scientific knowledge. An infusion of Igbo Indigenous Science in the curriculum could go a long way to providing relevant education in schools. An introduction of Igbo Indigenous Science into the secondary school curricula would likely involve various methods. The holistic nature of Indigenous Science encompasses intellectual, physical, affective and spiritual domains of learning. The Igbo culture comprises indigenous practices such as the people's visual art, music dance forms, attire as well as their cuisine that developed over the centuries prior to Middle Eastern or Western contact. Indigenous Science is often defined as knowledge transferred to learners by observation and experiment, and is therefore passed and learned by "trial and error" and a series of empirical approaches within a given society.
