Mental Model

Minor thoughts on Margaret Meads Gender Image

Submitted by philipp on Thu, 02/08/2018 - 18:23
A text snippet from Mead and Metraux's text.a

Recently I wrote an article on school students' mental models of computer science and computer scientists. The article is methodically based on research published in 1957 by the now famous Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux.

In their article "Image of the Scientist Among High School Students: A Pilot Study" they studied school children's image of scientists in general (Mead & Metraux 1957).

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