Academic literature on the topic 'Culturo-Techno -Contextual Approach'

As the quest for better ways to present science to the new generation of students continues to occupy the thoughts of science educators across the globe, so will new approaches such as the Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach (CTCA) continue to emerge in response to thisquest. This study explores the potency of CTCA in breaking the barriers to meaningful learning of electrochemistry. The explanatory sequential design was employed. A total of 141 secondary school (II) students from two purposively selected schools in Lagos State education district V participated in the study. The electrochemistry achievement test which had a reliability coefficient of 0.78 was the instrument used to collect the quantitative data. Treatment lasted five weeks after the conduct of the pretest, the experimental group was taught using CTCA and the control group was taught using the traditional lecture method. Four weeks after the posttest, the retention test was conducted. One-way ANCOVA wasused to analyse the data. The experimental group outperformed the control group, but CTCA had no differential impact on students in the experimental group based on gender. Within the limitations of the study, we concluded that CTCA is capable of promoting meaningful learning in chemistry. Implications of the study were highlighted.

There have been several efforts and interventions through research and workshops to introduce novel interventions in teaching and learning strategies by science educators around the globe. And countless numbers of strategies to improve academic performance had been introduced in the learning environment. However, many factors could be linked to different academic achievement and attitude to teaching and learning. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate if the use of Culturo-Techno- Contextual Approach (CTCA), a learning strategy that incorporate the use of cultural knowledge (indigenous knowledge), component of contextual drawing from the immediate environment to illustrate teaching, and the component of technology to better strengthen learning. And the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL), a strategy involving peer learning method interventions to enhance the academic achievement and attitude of students in senior school in machine language. Why machine language? It is a concept in the Nigeria computer studies curriculum that students find difficult to learning. It is hypothesized that there is no statistically significances difference in i) effects of class stream (science, commercial, and arts) in achievement and attitude, and ii) in school type (private and public) in achievement and attitude when taught using the two strategies to teaching and learning machine language in secondary school. The research design was quasi-experimental (a pre-test post-test nonequivalent group) design. A total of 207 computer studies students in senior secondary year two (SS2) comprising 106 females and 101 males participated in the study. The instrument used to gather data was the machine language attitudes questionnaire (MLAQ) and machine language achievement test (MLAT) which had a reliability coefficient of 0.65. There are two experimental groups and they were taught separately with CTCA and PLTL while the control group was taught with the traditional lecture method. The data (pre-test and post-test scores) collected were analysed using mancova since the participants were not randomly assigned to the groups. When CTCA is used, students are required to (a) draw on their topicrelevant indigenous (cultural) knowledge; (b) use technology to seek pre-lesson knowledge of the topic to be taught; (c) work in groups to share knowledge gleaned from their socio-cultural interactions and webbased resources; and (d) draw on their prior knowledge of the topic when used. While the PLTL is based on social dimension, scientific learning discovery, and optimal learning which is active engagement by the students. The study found no statistically significant effect of class stream of students on achievement and attitudes of students when taught using CTCA, PLTL or lecture method [F (2, 202) = 0.20; p > 0.05] and on attitude [F (2, 202) = 2.13; p > 0.05]. While there was a significant difference in machine learning achievement of students taught using CTCA, PLTL, and the Lecture method [F (1, 203) = 4.34; p < .05] and a significant different in school type in machine learning attitude of students taught using CTCA, PLTL, and the Lecture method. [F (1, 203) = 5.82; p < .05]. Hence, the study concluded that educators are encouraged to use the CTCA and PLTL and they could capitalise on the assets of the CTCA and PLTL in demonstrating how it could be employed as a pedagogical design for enhancing the achievement and attitude of students in computer studies and other subjects which are offered at the senior secondary schools. The strategies will help both teachers and students to gain respect for local activities and culture, its wisdom and ethics and appreciate indigenous science and technology and appreciate the use of local resources more thereby enhancing sustainability and it will encourage collaboration among students thereby leading to better academic achievement and attitude. Keyword: Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach (CTCA); Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL); Machine Language; Collaborative.

Africa is the most vulnerable region of the world due to anthropogenic climate change challenges on account of dependence on nature for the sustenance of agriculture as her main source of income, high level of poverty, and low level of literacy. Climate change adaptation involves strategies of adjusting to the negative effects of climate change, while climate change mitigation involves techniques that help to reduce production of greenhouse gases through burning fossil fuels. The African worldview from the frontier of Nigerian epistemological and ontological perspectives as it finds expression in climate change adaptation and mitigation is built on the foundations of its relationship with nature, traditional religion and belief systems, agricultural practices, and some other day-to-day practices. Worldview analysis of the contemporary Nigerian has been conducted and classified into Original African, Westernized African, and Little Here-and-There African, a paradigm existing in Nigerians irrespective of level of Western education. What will be the fate of the younger Nigerian climate scientist in a globalized and technologically competitive world? This question gives rise to further discussion on the principles and application of the theory of Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach as postulated by Peter A. Okebukola and applied to creating an environment for meaningful learning on climate change adaptation and mitigation for the future generations of Nigerians.

Student difficulty in public administration has witnessed some writings within the African context. Although these studies are emerging, there seems to be minimal research on the influence of school libraries on students’ understanding of public administration. This gap in the public administration literature precludes educational managers from determining whether or not the variable influences students understanding of the course/programme. Not establishing this places educational managers in a situation that inhibits them from placing measures to enhance the understanding of the course from the lenses of school libraries. This study responds to the gap in the public administration literature by employing a mixed-method approach to investigate the influence of the variable in the study of public administration by Ghanaian and Nigerian university students using a sample of N = 650. Anchored on the Culturo-Techno- Contextual Approach, the study results suggest significant differences in corruption, governance, and defining public administration ( p < .001) when there are poor school libraries. Both theoretical and practical implications have been proferred for the use of school libraries to enhance students’ understanding of difficult concepts in the study of public administration in Ghanaian and Nigerian universities.

This desk review draws from the active learning literature to establish that the Culturo- Techno-Contextual Approach is a new active learning model of African origin that holds the key to students understanding of concepts within the continent. The chapter argues that the tripod of culture, technology, and context form the basis of the CTCA and are all triggered by engaging peers, community, teachers, and other active learning partners to ensure students understand concepts. Anchored on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, we argue that the five-step teaching processes used in the CTCA further involve students engaging with their communities, peers, friends and relations, technology, and others to enhance their understanding of concepts. We conclude that the CTCA is an active learning model that enhances students understanding of concepts in schools. We further propose the Collectivism, Culture & Context Framework (3C Framework) as one that can further enhance active learning and students’ understanding of concepts.