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- Title
LOIS MEIER SHOEMAKER.
- Authors
Pruitt, Clarence M.
- Abstract
The article presents information related to Professor Lois Meier Shoemaker, who was the eleventh president of the Council for Elementary Science International. She was born in Ipava, Fulton County in Illinois. Her father, William H. D. Meier, was a noted science educator and her mother's name was Elizabeth B. Campbell Meier. Her grandfather, H. H. Meier, was born in Gehrde, Germany and was the son of a farmer who married a neighborhood village girl. Her mother was the daughter of a farmer whose family emigrated from Scotland to Kentucky, then finally to Illinois near Winchester. Her father was a teacher at the Illinois State Normal School, Illinois and was also the superintendent of schools at three different places in Illinois. Her father also served as the Head of the Department of Biology at Normal School, Framingham, Massachusetts. She was said to be a pioneer among women science education leaders. She was an active participant in several science movements and always an enthusiastic classroom elementary science methods teacher.
- Subjects
ILLINOIS; SHOEMAKER, Lois Meier; WOMEN educators; SCIENCE teachers; SCIENCE education; COLLEGE teachers; SCHOOL superintendents; ELEMENTARY school teachers; SCHOOL administrators
- Publication
Science Education, 1967, Vol 51, Issue 5, p321
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730510402