New Perspectives in Science Education

Edition 13

Accepted Abstracts

Creating Climate Change Awareness to Kuje Area Council Community through Mobile Phone Learning

Maureen Chukwu, National Open University of Nigeria (Nigeria)

Samson Kadafur, National Open University of Nigeria (Nigeria)

Abstract

The project explored use of mobile phone learning to create climate change awareness to the inhabitants of Kuje Area Council, Abuja Nigeria. The research was motivated by bush and waste burning, deforestation, cooking with fire woods and coals in Kuje Area Council which are dominant contributors to climate change. A total of 80 residents of Kuje (40 males and 40 females) participated in a six week programme voluntarily. In the course of the programme, text messages, e-mails, pictures and jingles warning against climate change were sent out with the help of mobile phones. Data were collected from the participants using structured questionnaire which was validated through peer review and pilot testing. Data collected were analyzed using a paired t-test, an independent t-test and Turkey’s HSD test. The various ways of maintaining clean and conducive environments were learnt by participants, which impacted positively on their awareness of climate change. Results showed that the participants’ knowledge of mobile phone learning increased significantly and there was a significant difference between the genders in the pre-project test (P=0.05). It is recommended that mobile phone should be used as a medium of climate change awareness. Similarly, participants should be given the opportunities that enable them to engage in other m-learning activities.

Keywords: conducive environment, deforestation, phone providers, stakeholders, educational projects.

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