Adapting physics curriculum materials across a language barrier: a feasibility study

This paper has two purposes, one general and the other specific. The general purpose is to examine, from a case‐study point of view, the scope and limitations of adapting curriculum materials developed in one country, to the language and needs of another country. The specific purpose is to examine the feasibility of adapting an existing Israeli programme in order to meet the physics curriculum needs of a disadvantaged population in South Africa.