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Selma Wassermann fonds
F-263 · Fonds · 1962-2017

Fonds consists of records relating to Selma Wassermann's activities as an educator and scholar. Activities documented include SFU teaching and curriculum development; research and publication; development of classroom educational resources; professional development projects with teachers in the metro Vancouver area drawing on Wassermann's teaching for thinking methods and pedagogy; and correspondence with colleagues, including her mentor, Louis C. Raths. Records include course outlines, instructional materials, case studies, notes and working papers; correspondences and reports; speeches, conferences papers and proceedings, academic articles and books; teachers' guides and resources; interviews, photographs, classroom footage, sound recordings and video. The fonds includes copies of most of Wassermann's published articles, but only a small selection of her published books, including her first work, Teaching and Thinking (1966), as well as Spanish translations of Serious Players and Introduction to Case Method Teaching.

The fonds is arranged into six series:
- Teaching and course development files, 1972-2007 (series 1)
- Materials relating to case method teaching, 1991-2005 (series 2)
- Speeches, 1988-1999 (series 3)
- Publications and writings, 1967-2010 (series 4)
- Personal papers and correspondence, 1962-2000 (series 5)
- Audio-visual materials, 1989-2006 (series 6)

Wassermann, Selma
Books
F-263-4-4 · Sub-series · 1967-2010
Part of Selma Wassermann fonds

Sub-series consists of copies of Wassermann's published books. Wassermann did not transfer a full run of her book titles; this sub-series represents only a very small fraction of her total output (5 out of ca. 30 books). It includes a copy of her first work, Teaching and Thinking: Theory and Application, co-authored with several colleagues, including Louis E. Raths; a 1988 work co-authored with J.W. George Ivany, SFU's Dean of Education and later VP Academic (Teaching Elementary Science: Who's Afraid of Spiders? ); Spanish translations of two of her titles; and her 2010 book on Grandparenting at a Distance. Full citations are given in the item descriptions.

Selma on "Today"
F-263-6-0-0-0-15 · Item · 2001
Part of Selma Wassermann fonds

Recording of Wassermann's appearance on "Today" show, July 13, 2001. Segments starts at 1:13:30, ends at 1:18:45.

Audio-visual materials
F-263-6 · Series · 1989-2006
Part of Selma Wassermann fonds

Series consists of audio-visual materials relating to Selma Wassermann's teaching and research. Includes interviews with Wassermann and others (including Roland C. Christensen); classroom and raw footage; media and conference appearances; and a dialogue between Wassermann, John Ellis and Glenn Kirchner on the development of the Faculty of Education at SFU. Media types include VHS tapes and optical disks.

F-263-5 · Series · 1962-2000
Part of Selma Wassermann fonds

Series consists of personal correspondence, appreciations from students and colleagues, and documentation relating to Wassermann's career at SFU. Correspondents include Professor Louis E. Raths, with whom Wassermann studied at New York City University, described by her as "my great teacher, mentor and friend"; Professor C. Roland Christensen, characterized by Wassermann as "the 'father' of case method teaching at Harvard Business School"; and E.G. Kallet, parent of a student Wassermann taught in her time as a public-school teacher in New York. Records include correspondence; reminiscences of Wassermann by Sylvia Ashton-Warner (with whom Wassermann worked in the early 1970s) and Jim Clark (a former student from her time at Newark State College); a copy of Wassermann's SFU Excellence in Teaching Award (1989); SFU publicity materials relating to Wassermann's work; and cards, drawings and well-wishes from students and colleagues.

Asking the Right Question
F-263-4-5-0-7 · File · 2005
Part of Selma Wassermann fonds

Full citation: Wassermann, Selma. Asking the Right Question. Burnaby: Professional Programs, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, 2005.