Awarenss of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Among Science Teachers in Science and Technical Schools in Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Nigeria

Abstract

Abstract: This study seeks to explore the awareness of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology among science teachers in science and technical schools. A survey lookup layout was adopted for the study. Two research questions and two hypotheses were defined to direct the examination. The populace comprised of 224 science educators and this likewise fills in as the example size for the examination. Instrument titled “Awareness of Science Teachers about Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Questionnaire)” with a reliability coefficient of 0.96 was used. Simple percentage and frequency counts were utilized to respond to the examination questions while Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was utilized to test the hypotheses. The findings from this investigation uncovered that science educators in science and technical schools are not aware of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NSNT). Similarly, the study additionally uncovered that science instructors in science and technical schools are not aware of the fundamental ideas upon which Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NSNT) are based upon. Hence both hypotheses were rejected. In the light of this, it was recommended among others that the government, ministry of education, board of science and technical schools, stakeholders and policymakers in the education sector should organize programs like the K-12 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology project to train science teachers in secondary schools and science and technical colleges on NSNT and how to teach NSNT and its fundamental ideas in the classroom.