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Jane Elliott (née Jennison; [2] [3] born November 30, 1933) is an American diversity educator.As a schoolteacher, she became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class [a] on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
First woman to earn a Philosophy doctorate degree. [42] [43] 1732 Laura Bassi: First woman to officially teach at a European university. [44] [45] [46] 1874 Grace Annie Lockhart: First woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree: 1875 Stefania Wolicka-Arnd: First woman to receive a PhD in the modern era. [47] [48] 1891 Juana Miranda
Women first began to attend the U.S. service academies. [179] Shirley Muldowney was the first woman to win a NHRA national event. [170] Emily Howell Warner was the first woman to become an American airline captain. [180] [181] 1977 Janet Guthrie was the first woman to compete in the Daytona 500 and the first woman to lead a NASCAR Winston Cup ...
The first Women's History Day was held in 1909. ... Despite being struck by an avalanche during her climb, editor and piano teacher Junko Tabei topped Mount Everest on May 16, 1975. She was the ...
Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs, New York: Garland Publishing. Jones, Beverly W. (April 1982). "Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women, 1896 to 1901". The Journal of Negro History. 67 (1): 20– 33. doi:10.2307/2717758.
She introduced new methods of teaching mathematics and began art classes. She was the first to introduce the practice of hiring a school nurse. Her school was the only one in the city of Cambridge to establish an "open-air" classroom. Poet E. E. Cummings was one of her students and described her thus in his book Six Nonlectures:
On this day in history, the first 12 women graduated from the prestigious Harvard Medical School. The Harvard Medical School listed the graduates' names on their website: First female graduates ...
Feminist Pedagogy, focusing acutely on the power relations between student and teacher can often fail to address the power dynamics that operate among class participants. "As the classroom becomes more diverse, teachers are faced with the way the politics of domination are often reproduced in the educational setting.