For Brickhouse (2001) we learn not only subject andcontent knowledge but also what is
expected of us as members of a particular communityand leads to the development of a
personal and gendered identity. For the majority of the teachers who participated in the
study (10 out of 14) boys and girls learn science in a different way. They believed that
“children are not only channelled into gender appropriate experiences but also into
gender specific ways of experiencing. As a consequence children may not only have
different experiences