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Asimeng-Boahene, Lewis – Education, 2006
Over the past years, a large body of scholarly literature has developed to address gender inequity in the developed world, and suggestions for reducing the gender gap are well documented in the literature. However, still lacking in research is why there is gender inequity in mathematics and science education in African schools. Girls are not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Gender Bias

Conkright, T. D. – School Science and Mathematics, 1978
Investigates the relationship between students' previous school knowledge about a particular natural phenomenon and the teaching of a science lesson about that phenomenon. A group of 198 secondary school students from Sierra Leone, West Africa, and 21 junior high students from the United States participated. (HM)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Educational Research