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 (F-263-1)
- Materials relating to case method teaching, 1978-2005 (F-263-2)
- Speeches, 1988-1999 (F-263-3)
- Publications and writings, 1973-2010 (F-263-4)
- Personal papers and correspondence, 1962-2000 (F-263-5)
- Audio-visual materials, [198-]-2006 (F-263-6)