2.1 Contextualization and Localization in Science Education Science education in the Philippines is faced with various challenges regarding students and teachers accomplishments in international assessment studies. Several factors were identified as to the reasons why many and still a number of Filipino students have poor performance in science, these are the following: the quality of teachers, the teaching and learning process, the school curriculum, the instructional materials, and the support from administrators (UP NISMED, 2005). Efforts were being undertaken in order to address these challenges in the basic education, and that is to improve the quality of the science curriculum in elementary and secondary education as well as providing …show more content…
Moreover, learning the content must be contextual. It is also the responsibility of the stakeholders involved in education to make sure that the learning science must be holistically taught integrated with other fields of sciences and explanations must constructed using evidences. “School science should be relevant and useful”. Science must be taught and organized around situations, problems or activities that are engaging to students. In able to allow learning to become more meaningful and relevant, localization of the curriculum would be needed (UNESCO, n.d.). “School science should nurture interest in learning”. The classroom activities must not be confined merely on textbooks but also using hand-on activities that encourage them to be active learners. “School science should recognize that science and technology reflect, influence, and shape our culture.” Learning science must also be relevant to the experiences of the students from the place or environment they interact with. The science and technology should be integrated with every aspects of life including culture. In addition, the use of local resources found in the environment would direct that science and technology are strongly linked and learning science must be related to local conditions concerning …show more content…
One is constructivism by Bruner, states that learning is an active, contextualized process of constructing knowledge rather than acquiring it. Knowledge is constructed based on personal experiences and hypotheses of the environment. Contextual Teaching Learning (CTL). According to Dease (2012) that learning can only occur when students are able to connect between content and context. Febby (2011) also define CTL as a concept of learning that help teachers link between materials taught with real world situations to students and encourage students to make connection between the knowledge possessed by its application in their lives as family members and the community. Situated