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ERIC ED360155: A Cooperative Research Group for the Study of Culture and Science Education in Developing Countries.

In the West, science is assumed to be an integral part of Western culture. What interests Western educators and policy makers is achievement in science, particularly the comparative achievement in science among students of different Western nations plus Japan. Americans are constantly asking whether or not our students know as much science as Japanese and German students, for example. While educators in non-Western, developing nations share an interest in achievement, they ask other questions that rarely arise in the West, more fundamental questions about world view and the compatibility of va…