ABSTRACT

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 society’s 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.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

African science education: gendering indigenous knowledge in Nigeria

chapter 1|28 pages

Where are the girls?

chapter 2|23 pages

Indigenous Knowledge

Its role in education

chapter 3|21 pages

Igbo Indigenous Science

An ethnobiologist perspective

chapter 4|10 pages

Going to school

Nsukka education context

chapter 5|15 pages

The Shalom dream

Nigerian-based education

chapter 6|21 pages

Gendered narratives

chapter 8|26 pages

Creating gender parity

Igbo women’s Indigenous Science Knowledge practice

chapter 9|17 pages

Conclusion

Gendering science through syncretic education