Gilah Leder

Last updated

Gilah Chaja Leder AM FASSA (born 1941) is an adjunct professor at Monash University and a professor emerita at La Trobe University. [1] Her research interests are in mathematics education, gender, affect, and exceptionality. Leder was the 2009 recipient of the Felix Klein Medal. [2]

Contents

Early life

She was born in 1941, during the II World War, in Hilversum, North Holland. Being a Jewish child, she was hidden and protected by the catholic Zwanikken family of Laren. The father of the house, Cornelis Zwanikken worked at the municipality department of Social Affairs. Here, she was accepted as one of their own and affectionately called “zusje” (little sister). She learned to read and write in her early childhood. After the war she was reunited with her family. They started to live in Netherlands, where she visited coeducational elementary school. In November 1953 she moved to Adelaide, Australia. She started her 7th grade there at Woodwille High School, a coeducational government school. She got her bachelor's degree with honours in mathematics at University of Adelaide. [3] [4]

Career

She started her career teaching maths at a high school in Melbourne. Later she was offered a position at Melbourne Secondary Teachers College. After having given birth to her 2 children, she completed her PhD and a doctorate at Monash University. Later she was appointed as a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University.

In 1990 she edited and published a journal Mathematics and Gender together with Elizabeth Fennema. In 1993 she was named Monash's University 'Supervisor of the Year' for her talent in supervising postgraduate students. In 1994 she was appointed a professor of Education at La Trobe University. [5]

In 2010 she was honoured by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction for her achievements in mathematics education, research and development. [6]

She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2001. [7] She is past President and life member of the Mathematics Research Group of Australasia and of the International group of Psychology of Mathematics Education.

Leder was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to higher education, and to the Jewish community of Victoria". [8]

Publications

Leder has almost 200 scholarly publications, [9] including:

See also

Related Research Articles

Warren John Ewens is an Australian-born mathematician who has been Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1997. He concentrates his research on the mathematical, statistical and theoretical aspects of population genetics. Ewens has worked in mathematical population genetics, computational biology, and evolutionary population genetics. He introduced Ewens's sampling formula.

The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is a commission of the International Mathematical Union and is an internationally acting organization focussing on mathematics education. ICMI was founded in 1908 at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rome and aims to improve teaching standards around the world, through programs, workshops and initiatives and publications. It aims to work a great deal with developing countries, to increase teaching standards and education which can improve life quality and aid the country.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">A. G. L. Shaw</span> 20th and 21st-century Australian historian

Alan George Lewers Shaw was an Australian historian and author of several text books and historiographies on Australian and Victorian history. He taught at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney, and was professor of history at Monash University from 1964 until his retirement in 1981.

Enid Mona Campbell, AC, OBE, FASSA was an Australian legal scholar, and was the first female professor and Dean of a law school in Australasia. She is known for her work on constitutional law and administrative law, as well as her contribution to legal education.

Verity Nancy Burgmann is Adjunct Professor of Politics in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, where she is Director of the Reason in Revolt website. In 2013 she was Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Visiting Professor of Australian Studies in the Institut für Englische Philologie at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Marilyn Lee Lake, is an Australian historian known for her work on the effects of the military and war on Australian civil society, the political history of Australian women and Australian racism including the White Australia Policy and the movement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander human rights. She was awarded a personal chair in history at La Trobe University in 1994. She has been elected a Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Robin John Hyndman is an Australian statistician known for his work on forecasting and time series. He is Professor of Statistics at Monash University and was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Forecasting from 2005–2018. In 2007 he won the Moran Medal from the Australian Academy of Science for his contributions to statistical research. In 2021 he won the Pitman Medal from the Statistical Society of Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Judith M. Lumley</span> Australian academic

Judith Mary Lumley had a career as an academic, author, public health advocate and perinatal researcher, retiring as Professor Emerita at La Trobe University in December 2008.

Joan Errington Beaumont, is an Australian historian and academic, who specialises in foreign policy and the Australian experience of war. She is professor emerita in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.

Belinda Probert is an educator and social scientist who has advised non-government organisations and state and national governments in Australia. Her academic research and writing has been in the areas of employment policy, gender equity, and work and welfare reform, including households and the domestic division of labour. She has held senior leadership roles in several universities as well as with the Australian Research Council, where she was a member and Deputy Chair of the Research Training and Careers Committee (1993–1998), and member of the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Expert Advisory Committee.

Joy Damousi, is an Australian historian and Professor and Director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. She was Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne for most of her career, and retains a fractional appointment. She was the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2017 to 2020.

Raelene Frances, is an Australian historian and academic at the Australian National University.

Lynette Wendy Russell, is an Australian historian, known for her work on the history of Indigenous Australians; in particular, anthropological history ; archaeology; gender and race, Indigenous oral history, and museum studies.

Ann Margaret McGrath is an Australian historian and academic. As of 2023 she is the WK Hancock Chair of History at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Vera Mackie is an Australian academic who has specialised in Japanese feminism and gender history. As of 2021 she is Emeritus Senior Professor of Asian and International Studies at the University of Wollongong.

Gael Margaret Martin is an Australian Bayesian econometrician, known for her work in simulation-based inference and time series analysis of non-Gaussian data. She is a professor of econometrics and business statistics at Monash University, an associate investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Margot Ruth Prior was an Australian psychologist, educator, and musician. She was professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne where her research focused on autism and literacy development. She was also director of psychology at the Royal Children's Hospital and was adjunct professor at La Trobe University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marilyn Fleer</span> Australian professor

Marilyn Fleer is an Australian professor of early childhood education and development at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She was awarded the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council in 2018.

Mardi Helen Dungey was an Australian macroeconomist.

Professor Cheryl Dissanayake AM, FASSA is the inaugural Olga Tennison Endowed Chair in Autism Research and was the founding Director of the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre based at La Trobe University, Australia. She is a developmental psychologist and behavioural scientist in the field of autism research.

References

  1. ↑ "Adjunct Professor Gilah Leder". Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
  2. ↑ "Felix Klein Medal for Gilah Leder". Archived from the original on 2010-12-27. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
  3. ↑ Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary
  4. ↑ Courage to care : 28 remarkable stories of rescue during World War II 2016
  5. ↑ Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary
  6. ↑ Global Maths Medal for Gilah Leder [ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Academy Fellow: Emerita Professor Gilah Leder AM, FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  8. ↑ "Professor Gilah Chaja Leder". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  9. ↑ "Felix Klein Medal for Gilah Leder". Archived from the original on 2010-12-27. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.