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Download full textAkuma, Fru Vitalis; Gaigher, Estelle – South African Journal of Education, 2023
The inquiry-based strategy in science education is widely recommended and incorporated in practical work. However, contextual and intrinsic teaching challenges associated with practical investigations (inquiry-based practical work), occur in resource-constrained physical sciences classrooms in South Africa. The intrinsic challenges have previously…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Inquiry, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
Direct linkMamombe, Charles; Mathabathe, Kgadi C.; Gaigher, Estelle – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
This qualitative case study explored how exposure to Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) improves 11th grade physical sciences learners' competency in solving stoichiometry problems. Two township schools of low socioeconomic status in Pretoria, South Africa, were conveniently and purposively sampled. Two classes (N = 48) composed of…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, Chemistry, Problem Solving
Akuma, Fru Vitalis; Gaigher, Estelle – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
There are many challenges associated with Inquiry-Based Practical Work (IBPW), scattered in the school and post-school natural sciences education research literature. The goal of the systematic review presented in this paper, was to gather the contextual teaching challenges in the said literature, and then to create a detailed multi-perspective…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Natural Sciences
Mamombe, Charles; Mathabathe, Kgadi C.; Gaigher, Estelle – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study explored the perceptions of teachers and learners regarding the use of Process Oriented Guided Learning Inquiry Learning (POGIL) to teach stoichiometry. A qualitative case study was carried out at two conveniently and purposively sampled township schools in Pretoria, South Africa. For this purpose, two Grade 11 physical sciences classes…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Stoichiometry, Chemistry
