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Overview
Sue Rosser's pioneering 1990 work, Female Friendly Science, introduced feminist teaching methods to math and science education and gave us a six-stage model for transforming curricula to attract and retain women in science, engineering, and mathematics programs. So successful was this new pedagogical paradigm that its reforms were assimilated into mainstream science education but, ironically, sacrificed their appeal to women in the process. Now, in Re-Engineering Female Friendly Science, Rosser revisits the Feminist origins of curriculum transformation and puts the gender back in gender equity.Editorials
Booknews
Rosser (Director of Women's Studies and Gender Research, U. of Florida, Gainesville) discusses increased awareness of the traditional barriers to female achievement in the sciences, and offers feminist theoretical analyses, and practical recommendations for making science curricula at all grade levels more inclusive of girls and women. The New Right and limited resources constitute newer challenges. While her major focus is on increasing gender equity in the "hard sciences" (via legislation and successful models), her overriding concern is that the U.S. needs to increase the appeal of science, math, and engineering to all students given their consistently poor ranking in international assessments. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
June 26, 1997
Publisher
New York : Teachers College Press, c1997.
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780807762875