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Title

Equity in mathematics education : influences of feminism and culture / edited by Pat Rogers and Gabriele Kaiser.

Publication

[Bristol, Pa.] ; Washington D.C. : Falmer Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Rogers, Pat.
• Kaiser, Gabriele.

Description

ix, 278 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Research and intervention over the past three decades have greatly increased our understanding of the relationship between gender and participation in mathematics education. Research, most of it quantitative, has taught us that gender differences in mathematics achievement and participation are not due to biology, but to complex interactions among social and cultural factors, societal expectations, personal belief systems and confidence levels.
• Intervention to alter the impact of these interactions has proved successful, at least in the short term. Typically, interventions sought to remedy perceived 'deficits' in women's attitudes and/or aptitudes in mathematics by means of 'special programmes' and 'experimental treatments'. But recent advances in scholarship regarding the teaching and learning of mathematics have brought new insights.
• Current research, profoundly influenced by feminist thought and methods of enquiry, has established how a fuller understanding of the nature of mathematics as a discipline, and different, more inclusive instructional practices can remove traditional obstacles that have thwarted the success of women in this important field. Some argue that practices arising out of contemporary analysis will improve the study of mathematics for all students, male and female alike. This book provides teachers, educators and other interested readers with an overview of the most recent developments and changes in the field of gender and mathematics education.
• Many of the chapters in this volume arose out of sessions.

Subjects

• Mathematical ability > Sex differences
• Mathematics > Study and teaching > United States
• Women in mathematics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction: Equity in Mathematics Education / Gabriele Kaiser and Pat Rogers -- Ch. 2. Connecting Women with Mathematics / Charlene Morrow and James Morrow -- Ch. 3. The METRO Achievement Program: Helping Inner-City Girls Excel / Denisse R. Thompson -- Ch. 4. Who Wants to Feel Stupid All of the Time? / Olive Fullerton -- Ch. 5. Assisting Women to Complete Graduate Degrees / Lynn Friedman -- Ch. 6. A National Network of Women: Why, How, and For What? / Barbro Grevholm -- Ch. 7. Women Do Maths / Claudie Solar, Louise Lafortune and Helene Kayler -- Ch. 8. 'Girls and Computers': Making Teachers Aware of the Problems / Cornelia Niederdrenk-Felgner -- Ch. 9. Common Threads: Perceptions of Mathematics Education and the Traditional Work of Women / Mary Harris -- Ch. 10. Culture, Gender and Mathematics / Gurcharn Singh Kaeley -- Ch. 11. Why Hawai'i Girls Outperform Hawai'i Boys: The Influence of Immigration and Peer Culture / Paul Brandon, Cathie Jordan and Terry Ann Higa.
• Ch. 12. Mathematics and New Zealand Maori Girls / Sharleen D. Forbes -- Ch. 13. Equal or Different? Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics / Gilah Leder -- Ch. 14. Gender Inequity in Education: A Non-Western Perspective / Saleha Naghmi Habibullah -- Ch. 15. Gender and Mathematics: The Singapore Perspective / Berinderjeet Kaur -- Ch. 16. Gender and Mathematics Education in Papua New Guinea / Neela Sukthankar -- Ch. 17. The French Experience: The Effects of De-Segregation / Francoise Delon -- Ch. 18. The Contribution of Girls-Only Schools to Mathematics and Science Education in Malawi / Pat Hiddleston -- Ch. 19. Feminism and Strategies for Redressing Gender Imbalance in Mathematics / Roberta Mura -- Ch. 20. Women's Ways of Knowing in Mathematics / Joanne Rossi Becker -- Ch. 21. Putting Theory into Practice / Pat Rogers -- Ch. 22. Gender Reform through School Mathematics / Sue Willis -- Ch. 23. We Don't Even Want to Play: Classroom Strategies and Curriculum which Benefit Girls / Joanna Higgins.
• Ch. 24. Moving Towards a Feminist Epistemology of Mathematics / Leone Burton -- Ch. 25. Mathematics: An Abstracted Discourse / Betty Johnston -- Ch. 26. Constraints on Girls' Actions in Mathematics Education / Marjolijn Witte -- Ch. 27. Mathematics: Beyond Good and Evil? / Nancy Shelley.

ISBN

• 0750704004 (CL)
• 0750704012 (PB)

LCCN

94043477

OCLC

• 503436825
• ocn503436825

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries