Counting Girls Out (Studies in Mathematics Education) - Hardcover

Walkerdine, Valerie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750708166 ISBN 13: 9780750708166

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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?

About this title

About the Author:

Jerome de Groot is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of The Historical Novel (2009), Consuming History (2008) and Royalist Identities (2004), as well as numerous articles on manuscript studies, historiography, popular history and early modern court culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0750708166
• ISBN 13: 9780750708166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192