Full Description
This text provides a critical overview of current thinking about equity issues in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Grounded in feminist theories of curriculum change and a broad range of cultural perspectives, the new approaches described here go beyond "special programmes" and "experimental treatments" designed to correct perceived problems and deficits. Instead they establish how improved instructional practices and a fuller understanding of the nature of the mathematical enterprise can overcome the systemic obstacles that have thwarted women's participation in this important field.; This book will appeal to all those who are interested in the mathematical education of women, including teachers, parents, administrators and researchers.
Contents
Introduction: Equity in Mathematics Education, Gabriele Kaiser and Pat Rogers. Part 1 Effecting Change: Intervening with Female Students, Working with Future Teachers, Focusing on Practising Teachers and Educating the Public: The METRO Achievement Program: Helping Inner-city Girls Excel, Denisse R. Thompson; Who Wants to Feel Stupid All of the Time?, Olive Fullerton; Assisting Women to Complete Graduate Degree, Lynn Friedman; A National Network of Women: Why, How and For What?, Barbro Grevholm; Women Do Maths, Claudie Solar, Louise Lafortune and Helene Kayler; Girls and Computers: Making Teachers Aware of the Problems, Cornelia Niederdrenk-Felgner; Common Threads: Perceptions of Mathematics Education and the Traditional Work of Women, Mary Harris. Part 2 The Cultural Context: Comparative Studies and Cultural Perspectives: Culture, Gender and Mathematics, Gurcharn Singh Kaeley; Why Hawai'i Girls Outperform Hawai'i Boys: The Influence of Immigration and Peer Culture, Paul Brandon, Cathie Jordan and Terry Ann Higa; Mathematics and New Zealand Maori Girls, Sharleen D. Forbes; Equal or Different? Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics, Gilah Leder; Gender Inequity in Education: A Non-western Perspective, Saleha Naghmi Habibullah; Gender and Mathematics: The Singapore Perspective, Beinderjeet Kaur; The French Experience: The Effects of De-segregation, Francoise Delon; The Contribution of Girls-only Schools to Mathematics and Science Education in Malawi, Pat Hiddleston. Part 3 Feminist Pedagogy in Mathematics Education: Feminist Influences and Changing the Discipline: Feminism and Strategies for Redressing Gender Imbalance in Mathematics, Roberta Mura; Women's Ways of Knowing in Mathematics, Joanne Rossi Becker; Putting Theory into Practice, Pat Rogers; Gender Reform Through School Mathematics, Sue Willis; We Don't Even Want to Play: Classroom Strategies and Curriculum Which Benefit Girls, Joanna Higgins; Moving Towards a Feminist Epistemology of Mathematics, Leone Burton; Mathematics: An Abstracted Discourse, Betty Johnston; Mathematics: Beyong Good and Evil?, Nancy Shelley.
