Kamkwamba documentary plus writing prompt as memory-priming preparation for focus group discussions¶

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Description¶

Before the focus group discussions, participants watched a brief documentary of William Kamkwamba's windmill-building problem-solving and completed a 20-minute writing prompt recalling everyday problems and how one was solved. The article states this preparation "was intended to help, by remembering, to activate knowledge schemas, as discussed by Marshall (1995)," with writing as a memory tool consistent with school curriculum use. Imaginary problems recorded during the prompt were excluded from the findings.

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Requirements¶

• A documentary stimulus and a structured writing prompt administered before group discussion to activate recall of real past problem-solving incidents

Constraints¶

• Participants who could not recall a real problem could record an imaginary one, but imaginary problems were not part of the data

Target Learners¶

• high school youth aged 14 to 17

Target Learning Goals¶

• recalling and narrating past applications of school science in everyday problem-solving

Affordances¶

• Free Choice Learning Cultural Pathway Everyday

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Key Sources¶

• Gitari, W. (2016). The Application of School Science by Urban High School Youth through Problem-solving in Everyday Life. Science Education International, 27(3), 344-368. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1118432