Talking chemistry in Zanzibar: probing pupils' chemistry knowledge using videos of local pedagogies Authors Sibel Erduran Abstract The article describes a group interview with two boys and two girls around some video clips of teaching and learning in Zanzibar schools in Africa. The study is part of a larger project called SPINE (Student Performance in National Examinations) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and Department for International Development in the United Kingdom. The project was a collaboration between University of Bristol and the State University of Zanzibar. The study provides evidence that pupils in Zanzibar face significant difficulties with English language which contributes to their difficulties with subject knowledge of chemistry as well. However when the pupils are immersed in interesting and motivating contexts with links and referents to local culture and schooling, they are willing to and are able to contribute to discussion. Such discussions in this study illustrate how sophisticated pupils understanding of chemistry and pedagogy can be along with the exposure of some misconceptions about some key chemical ideas. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2010-09-16 Issue No. 6 (2010) Section Estratègies i recursos didàctics License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.