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Objectives

PREMA 2 overall aim is at raising awareness on issues of mathematics and gender in order to increase the level of girls’ participation in career choices of sciences and technology. This is to be achieved by undertaking a set of activities that lead to the articulation of a teacher training model curriculum on gender and mathematics –flexible enough to be used in different contexts either in-service teacher training or pre-service, in different learning traditions for the secondary levels of education, ages of 14-18.

The specific objectives are:

to make publicly available the existing knowledge on gender and mathematics to reflect on the existing knowledge from a context oriented learning approach to establish a pan-European discourse on the existing practices and knowledge on gender and mathematics to design a model curriculum / framework on gender and mathematics for teacher training (both in-service and pre-service) to disseminate the project results (as per #4 above) to teacher training institutions and teachers (math) associations It is believed that the set of the above objectives will equip teacher training institutions and teachers themselves with curriculum and reference materials through which reflections on teaching practices can be made.

The curriculum itself will facilitate the “creation” of more informed teachers as it will constitute the tool for institutions to structure courses on gender and mathematics. The project dimension of a Community of Practice is a vehicle for continuous reflection and discourse between the practitioners. On the other hand the discussion fora in the project will generate valuable inputs for considering the type of further research required.