Dear EdEquity participants:
Here is the first installment of our resource list, which contains a book
review, a list of conference by date, and announcements for two recently
released reports. We would appreciate feedback on this format, as well as
suggestion for future resources.
Following are some guidelines to consider when sending in suggestions for
this resource list:
1) If you would like to send us a suggestion for the resource list, please
write "Resource List" in the subject line.
2) Please provide complete information regarding how to obtain the resource
or where to find out more about a conference. For books this would include
author(s), title, publisher, year of publication, and if possible contact
information for ordering. For conferences this would include the
conference name and focus area, dates, location, and contact information
for more information.
3) Please provide a concise description of the book, conference,
curriculum, etc.
4) Your reviews of products are very welcome.
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BOOKS:
A book of potential interest to members of this list. Don't know if it's
been published in the US yet.New, December 2000:
Crossing Boundaries Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women
Engineers, 1870s-1990, Editors: Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, Karin Zachmann
Harwood Academic Publishers
ISBN cloth 90-5823-068-6 $45, £30, Euro47
ISBN pb 90-5823-069-4 $18.99, £12.99, Euro20
10% discount when ordering online: write to info@gbhap.com
CONTENTS
Ruth Schwartz Cowan: Musings about the Women Engineer as Muse
Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, Karin Zachmann: Introduction
Ruth Oldenziel: Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the
U.S. 1870-1945
Caroll Pursell: "Am I a Lady or an Engineer?" the Origins of the Women's
Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940
Boel Berner: Educating for Men: Women and the Swedish Royal Institute
of Technology, 1880-1930
Dimitri Gouzevitch and Irina Gouzevitch: A Women's Challenge: the St.
Petersburg
Women's Polytechnic Institute, 1905-1918
Annie Canel: Maintaining the Walls: from the Ecole Polytechnique feminine
to the Grandes Ecoles in France
Juliane Mikoletzky: Precarious Victories? The Entry of Women into
Engineering Studies in Austria, 1900 - 1945
Annette Vogt: Women in Army Research: Ambivalent Careers in Nazi Germany
Karin Zachmann: Mobilizing Womenpower: Women, Engineers and the East
German State in the Cold War
Kostas Chatzis: A Pyrrhic Victory? Greek Women Engineers, 1923-1997
Epilogue
Moniko Greif: Bridging the Gap. German Feminist Women Engineers Today.
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CONFERENCES:
AEL Equity Conference -- March 21-23, 2001
Roanoke, Virginia
The Eisenhower Regional Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education at
AEL, in collaboration with the Region IV Comprehensive Center at AEL and
the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, is sponsoring an equity conference
March 21-23, 2001in Roanoke, Virginia.
The theme of this year's conference is Access for All: Math, Science, and
Technology. Featured speakers include Dr. Barbara Sizemore, DePaul
University; Gail West and Group, University of Central Florida; Dr.
Patricia Campbell, Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc.; and Dr. Freeman
Hrabowski, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In both plenary
and breakout sessions, participants will receive information and resources
that address access for all students to math, science, and technology.
To get additional information about AEL Equity Conference 2001 and to
register, please access our website at
http://www.ael.org/eisen/equity01.htm, or contact Janis Augustine at
800-624-9120 or augustij@ael.org.
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NCSM in Orlando, Florida April 2-4
If you are going to NCTM in Orlando, don't pass up NCSM April 2-4 in
Orlando.
In fact, don't pass it up even if you have time only for NCSM. We have a
three-day strand on equity, a three-day strand on ethnomathematics, a
three-day strand on closing the learning gap and 17 other provocative
strands. It is April 2-4 and you will find more information on
www.ncsmonline.org.
Kay Gilliland
14240 Skyline Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619-3626
510/638-6393
GillilandK@aol.com
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National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Secondary
Teachers on the subject of American Indian Literature. July 17-20
Directed by Professor James Fitzmaurice,
"Laying Claim: American Indian Literature and Narrative, Traditions and
Legacies in Context," will be held from June 17th to July 20th in
Flagstaff,Arizona and Tuba City, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. The first
and last
week of the institute will be held at Northern Arizona University and the
three weeks in between will be based in Tuba, near Moenkopi and Hotevilla.
Tuba City is also a convenient drive to the Grand Canyon, Canyon de Chelly
and Monument Valley.
The deadline for application to this program is March 1, 2001. Our reach
is national in scope, and we are particularly interested in reaching Native
educators and educators who teach on or near reservations. A considerable
stipend is available to the thirty selected participants who work as
educators.
For full information on our institute, including the slate of distinguished
faculty from NAU and elsewhere, for details on the application process
(including downloadable application materials), and information on NAU and
Northern Arizona, please visit our website:
http://www.nau.edu/~english/NEH2001.html.
Please forward this advertisement to anyone you think might be interested.
To receive a paper copy of the application, e-mail Susan.Stevens@nau.edu
and include your mailing address.
I would be more than happy to address any questions you or others might
have. Feel free to e-mail me at Jeff.Berglund@nau.edu or phone me at (520)
523-9237.
Thanks in advance,
Jeff Berglund, Lead faculty member, NEH Summer 2001 Institute on American
Indian Literature
PO Box 6032, Department of English, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
Arizona 68011-6032
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Reports:
Sexual Harrassment
The new sexual harassment guidance from the Office for Civil Rights
has been posted on the web. Go to the OCR web site and click on the
"What's
New" button at the bottom of the page. The guidelines were printed in the
01/19/01 Federal Register.
Reports from AAUW Educational Foundation:
Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can: Latinas in School by Angela Ginorio and Michelle
Huston
The report focus on the experiences of Latinas in the United States'
educational system. Why Latinas? Latinas/os are the fastest growing
immigrant population in the United States. It is project that the Latino
population grew more then seven times as fast as the rest of the nation
between 1980 and 1990 (53% growth) and is projected to double from the year
2010 to 2050, from 39.3 million to 80.7 million (U.S Census Bureau: 1993b)
To receive a copy: AAUW
1111 Sixteenth, St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
202-728-7602
www.aauw.org
Final note:
Information on these resources is provided as a service to listserv
subscribers. EdEquity does not review or necessarily endorse these
publications or events.
Hilandia Rendon
EdEquity Moderator and Administrator
EdEquity-admin@mail.edc.org
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