FairerScience Community Site
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| Audience/Grade: | Pre-K or Kindergarten - Continuing Education |
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All Science and Engineering |
| Learning Resource Type: | Community - General |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | Pat Campbell FairerScience.org |
| Description: | Web resources with advice on how to develop gender equitable classrooms and practices in math, science and engineering. The main page of the website provides excellent presentation tools. hese nine power point slides provide a general introduction to issues related to women scientists and the media and suggests some things that can be done to get more accurate portrayals. Another set of slides is called "Fairer Science in an Unfair World". These six power point slides target some things scientists and science organizations can do to improve media coverage of gender and science. The website is organized around how to communicate gender equity, a blog, website of experts, annotated bibliography, along with free resources. In earlier ages, it was believed that women could not pursue mathematics because their heads were too small, their nervous systems too delicate or their reasoning capacities insufficient. Such an eminent educational theorist as Rousseau believed that women were not qualified for research in abstract areas such as mathematics and science because their brains were unfit. Recent comments from sources ranging from the President of Harvard University to reporters in the Financial Times indicate that these inaccurate, antiquated notions are still with us. Researches and advocates for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have not been effectively communicating their findings in ways that allow the public including policy makers, educators and parents to understand and evaluate these findings and, where appropriate, make decisions based on them. FairerScience is committed to changing that. FairerScience is a joint project of the Wellesley Centers for Women and Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. It is funded by the National Science Foundation's Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Program and lead by Dr. Susan Bailey, executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and Dr. Patricia Campbell, president of Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. |
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| Keywords: | gender equity |
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FairerScience - Free Resources for Math and Science Classrooms Pat Campbell's Blog at FairerScience - Gender Equity in Science and Math |
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| Use of Resource: | Practical resource for gender equity at all grade levels in math, science, and engineering education. |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Interactivity Level: | Low |
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| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.fairerscience.org/index.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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