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The Growth Of The Christian Church (Chapter 2 Of "Expressions Of Faith"), Ken Badley, Dana Antayá-Moore, Amy Kostelyk Jan 2004

The Growth Of The Christian Church (Chapter 2 Of "Expressions Of Faith"), Ken Badley, Dana Antayá-Moore, Amy Kostelyk

Faculty Publications - College of Education

Aimed at 7th-graders in Canada, this textbook uses stories to educate about the world's major religions. Chapter 2, posted here, covers the rise of Christianity.


Boys And Girls "Doing Science" And "Doing Gender", Cleti Cervoni Dec 2003

Boys And Girls "Doing Science" And "Doing Gender", Cleti Cervoni

Cleti Cervoni

The gender gap in achievement in science continues to plague science educators in the United States  (AAAS, 2001). Strategies to close this gap have defined the problem in terms of girls’ lack of interest or their inability to survive in science classrooms.
Recent feminist scholarship has re-centered this problem of gender inequity not on girls, but on the nature of science and how it is taught in schools (Birke, 1986; Parker, 1997). Lesley Parker (1997) argues that it is schools that need to change and recommends a gender-inclusive science curriculum for schools.
My dissertation argues for a new framework and …