Tradition or modernity? The fallacy of misplaced concreteness among women science educators in Cameroon

Interchange

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 253-262

  Woodhouse, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

African traditional medicine; Commercial science by international corporations; Concrete experience; Indigenous knowledge; Narrow abstractions of the markets; Science education in Cameroon; The fallacy of misplaced concreteness; Whitehead; Women scientists

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044456487     PISSN: 08264805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007381729470     Document Type: Article

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