Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Science Education in Ethiopia

1. Science Education During the Reign of Menilik II

The Ethiopian secular education is founded on a package of imported curriculum—imported content, imported practice, imported personnel and imported language of instruction. This article will show how science is incorporated and taught beginning the foundation of secular education.

In the first ever schools of Emperor Menilik II, only rudimentary science was taught. Emperor Menilik’s commitment and efforts of modernizing Ethiopia would have been realized through educating citizens in areas of science and technical fields. Probably, against his expectation the secular education of his reign had been focusing on training bureaucrats. Hence, not much can be said about science and science teaching before the 1940s.

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