Counting Girls Out

ISBN-13: 9780750708159 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str.

Valerie Walkerdine

Opis

The question about girls' attainment in mathematics is met with every kind of myth, false evidence, and theorizing about the gendered body and the genedered mind. The Girls and Mathematics Unit led by Valerie Walkerdine has, over a period of ten years, carried out a detailed theoretical and empirical investigation in this area. Based on research, the book tackles issues and truisms, such as - women are irrational, illogical and to close too their emotions to be any good at mathematics and examines and puts into perspective these and other claims that have been made about women's minds. It analyzes the relationship between evidence and explanation: why are girls still taken to be lacking when they perform well, and boys credited even when they perform poorly?

Spis treści

Changing Views of ‘The Gender Problem’ in Mathematics, Paul Ernest; Chapter 1 Subtracting the Feminine; Chapter 2 The Truth about Girls; Chapter 3 Science, Reason and the Female Mind; Chapter 4 Mothers and Daughters at Four; Chapter 5 Power and Gender in Nursery School; Chapter 6 Entering Infant School; Chapter 7 10-Year-Olds; Chapter 8 Junior-Secondary Transition; Chapter 9 Entering Secondary School; Chapter 10 The Fourth Year; Chapter 11 Examining Mathematics Texts; Chapter 12 No Charge: Political Arithmetic for Women;

O autorze

Valerie Walkerdine