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Title: Women's Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins by Margaret A. Eisenhart, Elizabeth Finkel ISBN: 0-226-19545-7 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting but disturbing.
Comment: As a women science teacher, I was excited when I heard aboutthis book and fascinated as I began to read. Eisenhart and Finkelhave filled their book with specific cases and statistics which are relevant and are well-referenced.
However, I found some aspects of the cases being discussed to be disturbing.
For example, the students in the innovative genetics course were placed in groups according to gender and previously-demonstrated scientific ability. Granted, this is how you construct an experiment, but is it really fair to the high school students? They found that all the groups except the one composed of girls who had not done well in science benefited from the course. Might these girls have done well if they had been in a group with girls previously-successful in science? Who knows.
I was offended by the description of the teacher laughing when a student says he's been trying to steal other students' answers and telling the class some scientists do this. This should have been an opportunity to talk about ethics in science.
Despite these problems, I do recommend the book for its insights into science education.
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Title: Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences by Elaine Seymour, Nancy M. Hewitt ISBN: 0813366429 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $43.00 |
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Title: Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women by Virginia Valian ISBN: 0262720310 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology by Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor, Brian Uzzi ISBN: 0521787386 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Teacher Education and Cultural Imagination: Autobiography, Conversation, and Narrative by Susan Florio-Ruane, Julie Detar, Julie de Tar ISBN: 0805823751 Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: The Professional Stranger : An Informal Introduction to Ethnography by Michael Agar ISBN: 0120444704 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 21 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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