Laboratory Teaching and Challenges: A Study of Secondary Schools in District Chitral
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Science education at secondary school level plays an important role in the development of scientific attitudes and development of psychomotor domain which help the individuals to understand themselves and the environment in which they live. The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore the problems faced by science teachers while doing Laboratory work at secondary school level in District Chitral. All science teachers and educational experts in 10 different urban and rural schools were taken as the research sample. Adopted questionnaire and structured-open-ended interview methods were used to collect data. The collected data was analyzed using statistical tools and the result showed that laboratory teaching plays an important role in the development of scientific attitude among students at secondary level. The major challenges of science teachers are over workload, lack of laboratories, unavailability of scientific equipments and chemicals and ignorance of authorities. The study concludes that science teacher is the busiest teacher in secondary school having six classes each day and shortage of laboratory facilities is additional challenge for science teachers at government secondary schools. The study recommends hiring more than science teacher in each school, science teachers should be provided in-service training and school labs should be properly equipped to facilitate laboratory teachings.
Keywords: Science education, Laboratory work, Educational experts, challenges, In-service training
Copyright Notice Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher. The Editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication. Copyrights for articles published in IJSSA journal are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author’s responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.
