Gilah leather

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Gilah Chaya Vanderhoek Leder (* 1941 in Hilversum ) is an Australian mathematics educator who deals particularly with gender-specific questions in mathematics lessons.

Leder was hidden under German occupation with a Catholic family in the Netherlands because she was Jewish. After the war she was reunited with her family and went to school in the Netherlands until the family emigrated to Adelaide in 1953 . She studied mathematics at the University of Adelaide with a bachelor's degree (with a thesis on Boolean algebra) in 1963 and a diploma in education in 1965. She then taught at a high school in Melbourne, where she had moved after her marriage before she taught at Melbourne Secondary Teachers College. After the birth of her two children, she was a research assistant and tutor at Monash University , where she received her Masters in Education in 1973 and PhD in 1979. The dissertation was on girls' fears and the effects of gender differences in math class. In 1978 she became a Lecturer , in 1982 Senior Lecturer and in 1988 Professor of Education at Monash University. In 1994 she became a professor at the Graduate School of Education at La Trobe University . From 2000 to 2007 she was Director of Graduate Studies and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2007 she officially retired, but continued to teach and research there and at Monash University, where she is adjunct professor.

As a student, Leder campaigned for equal opportunities. She was a member of a student commission that enforced that female students in South Australia were allowed to wear pants. Her research is heavily influenced by the question of why so few women choose mathematics at school and university. She also worked with Elizabeth Fennema at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She found that girls viewed mathematics as a male-specific subject very early on, girls with mathematical skills tended to underestimate their skills, and teachers in schools had an overt or subliminal tendency to encourage boys rather than girls. She also examined more generally the influence of cultural and ethnic background on math learning.

From 1994 to 1998 she was President of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) and member for life, and from 1999 to 2001 President of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME). From 1995 to 2002 she was on the Executive Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI). From 2002 to 2004 she was visiting professor in Sweden. She is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia .

In 2009 she received the Felix Klein Medal .

Fonts

  • with Elizabeth Fennema (ed.): Mathematics and Gender, New York: Teachers College Press 1990
  • with Shirley Sampson (Ed.): Educating Girls: Practice and Research, Sydney: Allen and Unwin 1989
  • Editor with Erkki Pehkonen, Günter Törner: Beliefs: A Hidden Variable in Mathematics Education?, Kluwer 2002
    • Darin von Leder, Helen J. Forgasz: Measuring mathematical beliefs and their impact on the learning of mathematics: a new approach (Chapter 6)
  • Mathematics and gender: Changing perspectives, in: D. Grouws (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Macmillan 1992, pp. 597-622
  • Editor, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Volume 28, Issue 3, Special issue on Mathematics and Gender, 1995
  • with R. Gunstone: Quantitative Methods in Education Research. A Case Study, Geelong: Deakon University Press 1992
  • with L. Yates: Student pathways: a review and overview of national databases on gender equity, Canberra, Department of Education and Training, and Children's Youth and Family Bureau, 1996
  • with H. Forgasz, C. Solar: Research and Intervention Programs: A Genered Issue, in A. Bishop (Ed.), International Handbook of Mathematics Education, Kluwer 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Helen J. Forgasz in Charlene Morrow, Teri Perl (Ed.), Notable Women in Mathematics. A Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood Press 1998, pp. 118-123
  2. ↑ ASSA
  3. ↑ IMU ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mathunion.org
personal data
SURNAME Leather, gilah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leather, Gilah Chaya Vanderhoek (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian math educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilversum