Enugu State University of Science and Technology · Faculty of Education
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2 articles matching “practical work”
Chidiebere Nwachukwu
This editorial introduces the special issue on laboratory practice in under-resourced schools and argues that the field has too often imported assumptions about practical work from well-equipped Northern contexts without examining their fit.
Samuel O. Adeyemi, Ngozi A. Eze
Chronic equipment shortages limit practical science across much of sub-Saharan Africa. This study evaluated a structured improvisation programme in which teachers built laboratory apparatus from locally available materials. Across twelve schools, students in improvisation classrooms demonstrated practical skill gains statistically indistinguishable from those in fully equipped comparison schools, at a fraction of the cost. The study argues that improvisation should be treated as a legitimate pedagogical competence rather than a stopgap.
