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Debbie French

Debbie French is an Assistant Professor of Science Education and Director of Secondary Education at Wake Forest University. She started making guitars as a part of the STEM Guitar project when she was a high school physics, science, and engineering teacher at a school whose mascot was, somewhat paradoxically, the Fighting Quaker. She then did her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wyoming. When she isn’t professing, she likes to play tennis and curl (the ice-and-broom kind, not the barbell kind).

▪ bio current as of 2021

Guitar Making as a Teaching Tool

2021
AL#144 p.56               
Debbie French   Mark French                                                                                       

▪ There is a national movement to teach teachers how to teach STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and math) to high-school students; you have them make guitars. Turns out people think it’s fun to make guitars. Who knew?