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Trudy Hammer, associate principal at the Emma Willard School, says that as a result of Gilligan's findings on female moral develoment, the school is in the process of overhauling its curriculum and placing more emphasis on collaborative learning and less on the more autonomous, competitive techniques. "We're trying to move away from the male way of doing things" she says...
Hammer says that she has received countless phone calls from other secondary schools, co-ed and single-sex, expressing interest in Gilligan's work...
...Although Gilligan is pleased with the national attention that her work has been receiveing, she has no interest in becoming a "media figure". "I went ahead with the Ms. article because I though it would encourage women to take their values seriously" she says...
...Gilligan's courses on adolescents and moral development draw the largest enrollments of any courses at the Ed School, with more than 150 students enrolled in one of her courses last spring. "I've always been very involved in teaching, and I plan to stay involved. My teaching has always been closely connected to my research. My students provide an important source of my intellectual questioning...
Catherine Steiner-Adair, a doctoral student at the Ed School who is an advisee of Gilligan's and has taken several of her courses, says that Gilligan is a devoted teacher who shares her developing ideas with her students...