Selma Wassermann
Selma Wassermann is a Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She is the co-author of two texts, Teaching for Thinking: Theory, Strategies and Activities for the Classroom and Teaching Elementary Science: Who’s Afraid of Spiders? and the author of Getting Down to Cases: Learning to Teach with Case Studies and Introduction to Case Method Teaching: A Guide to the Galaxy, as well as The Long Distance Grandmother. Recipient of the Award of Teaching Excellence at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Wassermann is now the co-director of Figaro Educational Software, creating innovative computer software for classroom use. She lives in Vancouver, with her husband Jack, and cat, the incomparable Mischa. Her daughter, Paula, and two grandsons, Simon and Arlo, live-to-ski in Nelson. (p. 272)