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Rosie Davies
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science subjects
May 3, 2005 - 07:33 AM
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Anyone out there studying science? I'd really be interested to know how you find it, and how it's taught indifferent countries. What are the best and worst aspects of your lessons? Are any sciences popular to take up post-compulsary? Why/why not? Do your teachers seem to know what they're doing?
I'm studying physics at uni, but it's really not that popular, especially for girls. I've heard people saying there's a correlation between the stage of economic development of a country and how popular the sciences (esp.physics and engineering) are. Any opinions??
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Re: science subjects
May 12, 2005 - 06:19 AM
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Oh you remined me when I worked volunteer expert for biology, I found all questions from studients forgot books in class
it seem that during study if the teacher is not attractive and make them love science, it will be hard to stdy
physics is one of the difficult branches
about me I love science including physics, biology , biotechnology...
in fact i appreciated physics more when I studied it with my kids (a way of exams )so freedum in learning what u love and good teaches make things easier and interrested
about woman, I am grand mom and still spending life in new researches because i love sciences
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R Davida
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Re: science subjects
May 12, 2005 - 06:48 AM
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I don't think you should listen to those who tell you that science is not popular for girls. Remember Rosalin Franklin, a British women, took the photograph using x-ray crystallography that Watson and Crick stole so they would be first to have the structure of DNA? She, I beleive, should be an example that women can be just as good or better scientists than men.
In the US, science is rather being put-down because of the whole intelligent design debate currently. I don't know about connections to economic situations, though. It might make sence for good economy = people going into science, where as in poor economic situations people just want to 'get by.'
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Re: science subjects
May 12, 2005 - 12:41 PM
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Maybe a month and a half ago, Lawrence Summers the President of Harvard University made several comments at a conference that I'm sure he wishes he could take back. He mentioned innate differences that cause women to not be as sucessful as men in certain sciences. Afterwards, many prominent female professors walked out of the conference.
Having never taken a science class outside of the United States, I don't think I could compare my education with those of other countries. However, most of our curriculum consists of a lab a week, most of them are required by the programs we're a part of and the rest of it is filled with lectures. In physics, we probably have one major project every term in which we make trebuchets and roller coasters with massive write ups... yeah, that's about it!
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Re: science subjects
May 13, 2005 - 12:57 PM
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I think that many women in general are deterred from the sciences because of the stereotypes that are formed. For most universities affirmative action policies are adapted, and for many tech institutes many of them have much higher rates for admission for females than males. This has been interpreted by many people to mean that girls have an easier time being admitted and are less qualified in general than male applicants and being a female at a tech institute, I think that it's absolutely unfounded.
One of the reasons for this difference is that women in general are more self-selecting than men are when pursuing the sciences. I don't think that women will pursue subjects such as physics or and engineering field if they are unsure of what they want to pursue. There are many men and suprisingly women that believe that women in technological fields/ sciences are not as qualified as men. This greatly deters many qualified women from pursuing a science is their work is constantly second-guessed or if their opinions are constantly ignored, which was one of my concerns choosing the my university.
Many women in the sciences don't really have "issues" with pursuing their interests because they go and prove their abilities to others. I personally don't think I should ever have to prove to anyone my capabilities or suffer through other people's misconceptions just because I'm female.
On the relationship between the sciences and the economy, I think more people are willing to pursue the sciences now. If the economy is going through difficult times, I don't think anyone out there will study the less popular liberal arts driven courses just because there is very little demand for those occupations. When the economy's bad, I think many people revert back to pursuing the "safer" occupations in medicine or education, which is extremely sad because in my opinion they are two of the MOST honorable professions.
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