Abstract
Teachers bring with them into the science classrooms their own gendered identitities and
their views and perceptions about how boys and girls learn and achieve in science. This
paper tries to explore the way in which 14 Maltese science teachers use their own
‘personal practical knowledge’ to identify their views about gender and science and
create their own individual gender-inclusive pedagogy. The study suggests that the
science teachers focus more on the individuality of students and on the social and cultural
background of the students in their classrooms rather than on gender. The teachers try to
develop pedagogies and assessment practices which take into consideration the personal
constructs of individual learners. The ideas for such a gender-inclusive pedagogy
emerge from their common-sense experience in the classroom, their training as teachers
and are closely interrelated to current ideas of social constructivism.