The question about girls' attainment in mathematics is met with every kind of myth, false 'evidence', and theorizing about the gendered body and the gendered 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. The book tackles issues and prejudice and examines and puts into perspective many claims that have been made about women's minds. It also probes the relationship between evidence and explanation: why are girls still taken to be lacking when they perform well, but boys are credited even when they do not?
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Of course it is not a new trick to subtract the feminine, to render it worthless and in so doing to count girls out. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neat presentation, tutor sets, mathematical performance, critical filter, mathematical discourse, secondary surveys, sensitive mothers, mathematics education Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Baxter, Assessment of Performance Unit, Basil Brayne, Schools Council, Tutor Groups, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Wendy House New!
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- Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity by Julian Henriques in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality by Valerie Walkerdine in Front Matter, page 60, and Back Matter
- Formations of Fantasy by Victor Burgin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Girls into Science and Technology: The Story of a Project (Routledge Education Books) by Judith Whyte on page 23, and Back Matter
- The Essential Piaget by Howard E. Gruber, J. Jacques Voneche Jean Piaget in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Beyond Sex and Gender by Wendy Cealey Harrison on page 141, and Back Matter
- The Education Feminism Reader by Lynda Stone in Back Matter
- Adults' Mathematical Thinking and Emotions: A Study of Numerate Practice (Studies in Mathematics Education Series, 16) by Jeff Evans in Front Matter
- Mathematics Teacher Education: Critical International Perspectives (Studies in Mathematics Education Series) by A.J. Dawson in Front Matter
- Adults' Mathematical Thinking and Emotions: A Study of Numerate Practice (Studies in Mathematics Education Series) by Jeff Evans in Front Matter
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