Equity In Mathematics Education: Influences Of Feminism And Culture

by Rogers,Pat

• ISBN13: 9780750704014
• ISBN10: 0750704012
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Provides an overview of current thinking about equity issues in the teaching and learning of mathematics. This text examines how better instructional practices and understanding of the nature of the mathematical enterprise can overcome the systemic obstacles that have blocked women's participation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Equity in Mathematics Education	p. 1
Connecting Women with Mathematics	p. 13
The METRO Achievement Program: Helping Inner-City Girls Excel	p. 27
Who Wants to Feel Stupid All of the Time?	p. 37
Assisting Women to Complete Graduate Degrees	p. 49
A National Network of Women: Why, How, and For What?	p. 59
Women Do Maths	p. 66
'Girls and Computers': Making Teachers Aware of the Problems	p. 72
Common Threads: Perceptions of Mathematics Education and the Traditional Work of Women	p. 77
Culture, Gender and Mathematics	p. 91
Why Hawai'i Girls Outperform Hawai'i Boys: The Influence of Immigration and Peer Culture	p. 98
Mathematics and New Zealand Maori Girls	p. 109
Equal or Different? Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics	p. 117
Gender Inequity in Education: A Non-Western Perspective	p. 126
Gender and Mathematics: The Singapore Perspective	p. 129
Gender and Mathematics Education in Papua New Guinea	p. 135
The French Experience: The Effects of De-Segregation	p. 141
The Contribution of Girls-Only Schools to Mathematics and Science Education in Malawi	p. 147
Feminism and Strategies for Redressing Gender Imbalance in Mathematics	p. 155
Women's Ways of Knowing in Mathematics	p. 163
Putting Theory into Practice	p. 175
Gender Reform through School Mathematics	p. 186
We Don't Even Want to Play: Classroom Strategies and Curriculum which Benefit Girls	p. 200
Moving Towards a Feminist Epistemology of Mathematics	p. 209
Mathematics: An Abstracted Discourse	p. 226
Constraints on Girls' Actions in Mathematics Education	p. 235
Epilogue	p. 245
Mathematics: Beyond Good and Evil?	p. 247
Notes on Contributors	p. 263
Index	p. 271
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