NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

Learn more about the history of ERIC here. PDF icon

Showing all 3 results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Henwood, Flis; Miller, Katrina – Gender and Education, 2001
This theme issue examines the treatment of science, technology, and gender in educational research, presenting perspectives from mainland Europe, the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Articles focus on mainstreaming gender equality in science, interrogating the masculinist and heteronormative nature of elementary school science,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Gender Issues, Information Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Henwood, Flis – Gender and Education, 1998
Explores reasons for the continuing underrepresentation of women in science and engineering using interviews with 46 women and 30 men. A poststructuralist approach, with aspects of discourse theory, is used to examine subject choices and occupational decision-making processes of female students of software engineering. (SLD)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Computer Software Development, Decision Making
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Henwood, Flis – Gender and Education, 1996
Examines Women into Science and Engineering (WISE) discourse and explains why WISE has had limited success. It argues the WISE discourse limits the space women have to speak of the conflicts and contradictions they experience, and suggests the need for a greater understanding of how subjective experiences of gender and sexuality impinge upon work…
Descriptors: Career Development, Decision Making, Discourse Analysis, Employed Women