How literacy resources contribute to a gender inclusive classroom

Engineering Education: How to Design a Gender-Inclusive Curriculum

Despite recent efforts to increase the numbers of females in engineering courses, the proportion has plateaued at an average ofless than 20%. To increase the proportion further many believe that the way engineering courses are structured and presentedmust be changed. Demand for change in engineering education is also coming from a number of other directions as has beendemonstrated i...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Inclusive Education and Classroom Practice

Names and “Doing Gender”: How Forenames and Surnames Contribute to Gender Identities, Difference, and Inequalities

Names, as proper nouns, are clearly important for the identification of individuals in everyday life. In the present article, I argue that forenames and surnames need also to be recognized as "doing" words, important in the categorization of sex at birth and in the ongoing management of gender conduct appropriate to sex category. Using evidence on personal naming practices in the United States ...

Taking Literacy Beyond The Classroom

We report on a project that demonstrates how fieldtrips can be structured and delivered in novel ways, and how they can extend the range of curricula that can be addressed – in this case to literacy. After describing a fieldtrip to support creative writing, which employed UbiComp technologies, we focus on how outcome and process were affected, and how working with a mobile device was perceived ...