I am interested in researching gender in the mathematics classroom.
I am interested in this because although there have been recent efforts to reverse this pattern. as often there are more men in STEM than women. I have heard many girls in my classes saying that boys are naturally better at mathematics. Why is this? Where does this opinion stem from? How do I effectively work against it in my classroom? Is this a reflection of my school's cultural make up?
Interesting! Thanks Nancy. Something to think about: will you work with gender as a male/female binary, or in some more fluid sense? (Most of the work I've seen to date in math education has used the binary approach, but I wonder if there are more productive/ realistic ideas on the horizon for research?)
ReplyDeleteI had been thinking I was going to look at the binary "type", because that is what I've worked with in my practice. Should I see if I can find some articles representing both senses of gender? Or think about that for my long paper?
Delete