Exploring Work [microform] : Fun Activities for Girls
- Bib ID:
- 5592856
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. Women's Educational Equity Act Dissemination Center
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED393973
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996
- 176 p.
- Summary:
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This document contains learning activities to help middle school girls begin the career planning process and resist gender-role stereotyping. The activities are designed for individuals and/or groups of girls either in classroom settings or in organizations such as Girl Scouts and 4-H Clubs. A total of 30 activities are organized into 4 sections as follows: 8 activities to help girls discover and recognize their interests, skills, and values; 8 activities examining how certain talents and interests might eventually lead to certain careers, how gender-role stereotyping may influence the career planning process, and how stereotyping may be resisted; 10 career exploration activities emphasizing the wide variety of careers requiring some knowledge of science and math; and 4 activities explaining how to obtain information needed to set personal career goals by interviewing family and friends, individuals in actual workplaces, and/or mentors and by touring workplaces. Purpose, time, materials needed, and procedure for each activity are described. Concluding the document are the following: answers to one of the exercises; lists of handouts and readings included in the document; and lists of publishers of 4 magazines for girls, 11 publications about gender equity and career planning, 20 organizations providing career-related information, and 13 organizations for women/girls. (MN)
- Notes:
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- Availability: WEEA Equity Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc., 55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02158-1060.
- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: RP92136001.
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- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Career Exploration
- Career Planning
- Equal Education
- Females
- Information Sources
- Intermediate Grades
- Junior High Schools
- Learning Activities
- Middle Schools
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Nontraditional Occupations
- Resource Materials
- Science Careers
- Self Evaluation (Individuals)
- Sex Fairness
- Sex Stereotypes
- Womens Education
- Mathematics Careers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. Women's Educational Equity Act Dissemination Center
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2066 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1996
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