ZDM, November 2008

Along with Educational Studies in Mathematics and Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, ZDM has also recently published their November issue of this year. This issue contains a long list of interesting articles:

• Mathematics education: new perspectives on gender, by Gilah Leder and Helen Forgasz
• Moving towards a feminist epistemology of mathematics, by Leone Burton†
• The emergence of women on the international stage of mathematics education, by Fulvia Furinghetti
• Israeli Jewish and Arab students’ gendering of mathematics, by Helen J. Forgasz and David Mittelberg
• Gender, technology and attitude towards mathematics: a comparative longitudinal study with Mexican students, by Sonia Ursini and Gabriel Sánchez
• On the role of computers and complementary situations for gendering in mathematics classrooms, by Helga Jungwirth
• Exploring gender factors related to PISA 2003 results in Iceland: a youth interview study, by Olof Bjorg Steinthorsdottir and Bharath Sriraman
• Gender differences in the mathematics achievements of German primary school students: results from a German large-scale study, by Henrik Winkelmann, Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen and Alexander Robitzsch
• Adolescent girls’ construction of moral discourses and appropriation of primary identity in a mathematics classroom, by Jae Hoon Lim
• Images of mathematicians: a new perspective on the shortage of women in mathematical careers, by Katrina Piatek-Jimenez
• Equity in mathematics education: unions and intersections of feminist and social justice literature, by Laura Jacobsen Spielman
• Progress and stagnation of gender equity: contradictory trends within mathematics research and education in Sweden, by Gerd Brandell
• Gender in mathematics relationality: counseling underprepared college students, by Jillian M. Knowles
• Stepping beyond high school mathematics: a case study of high school women, by Charlene Morrow and Inga Schowengerdt
• Goos, Stillman and Vale: teaching secondary mathematics: research and practice for the 21st century, by Gaye Williams

The theme of this issue is: Mathematics Education: New Perspectives on Gender.