Connecting Girls and Science: A Feminist Teacher Research Study of a High School Prenatal Testing Unit.

Howes, Elaine Virginia

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ERIC Number: EJ574348

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Publication Date: 1998

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Connecting Girls and Science: A Feminist Teacher Research Study of a High School Prenatal Testing Unit.

Howes, Elaine Virginia

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v35 n8 p877-96 Oct 1998

Explores how a dozen high school girls express their relationship to and understanding of prenatal testing and its possible place in their lives and the lives of others in the context of a short unit on prenatal testing in a semester-long genetics course. Contains 57 references. (DDR)

Descriptors: Action Research, Biology, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Females, Feminism, Genetics, High Schools, Prenatal Care, Reproduction (Biology), Science and Society, Science Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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