Name: Context-based learning in secondary school science classrooms in Ethiopia
Start: 2025-11-04T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-04T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Donald McIntyre building, Room GS5 - ground floor.

Context-based learning in secondary school science classrooms in Ethiopia

Dr Dawit Asrat Getahun shares teachers' practices and textbook representations in secondary school science classrooms in Ethiopia
About this Event

This is an in person event at the Faculty of Education, with the option of also joining online.

Dr Dawit Asrat Getahun, Department of Psychology and School of Educational Sciences, College of Education, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

With funding from the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA programme, researchers from Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia and the REAL Centre explored the extent to which secondary school science curricula and teacher classroom practices promote context-based learning. The research specifically examines how science textbook activities and teachers’ instructional approaches draw on contexts relevant to students’ lives and experiences, and how these practices support the development of students’ inquiry skills.

In this seminar, Dr Dawit Asrat Getahun, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Bahir Dar University, will present preliminary findings from this collaborative research with Dr Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh of the REAL Centre.