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Title: | Teaching of physics for development |
Author: | Swift, D.G. |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | Educafrica: Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Africa |
Issue: | 10 |
Pages: | 98-117 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | rural development science education |
Abstract: | From a description of two schools in a poor rural settlement the author raises some interesting points in connection with teaching of physics for development. Considering these points in more detail, he shows that it is possible to relate science, and particularly physics, to rural development even in secondary schools. Some steps are already being taken in this direction. Such developments will make physics more relevant to students in developing countries. It will increase their motivation and ability to learn physics and enable them to make practical use of their physics when they leave school, even if they remain in the village. It may even allow the school itself to act as an example in rural development through, for example, technological innovation and a reduction in the drain on resources. Special attention is paid on the Kenyan situation where the 'Report of the National Committee on Educational Objectives and Policies' issued in 1976 made several recommendations to make school physics more relevant to rural development, with emphasis on a practical approach. Bibliogr., notes. |