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- Lindahl, Britt, et al.
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Socio-scientific Issues : A Way to Improve Students’ Interest and Learning?
- 2011
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Ingår i: US-China Education Review B. - New York : David Publishing Company. - 2161-6248 .- 1548-6613 .- 1930-1529. ; 8:9, s. 342-347
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to many documents, there is a strong need to renew science education. One way could be to work with SSI (socio-scientific issues). This paper reports on both students' and teachers' experiences and learning when working with socio-scientific issues in science education in secondary school (aged from 13 to 16). The approach is multidimensional, as factors that influence cognition as well as motivation and the forming of attitudes are complex. Results suggest that SSI work forms are more important than personal factors for explaining outcomes. Relevant issues, autonomy and functioning group work seem to be important aspects of successful SSI work together with structure provided by the teacher, and information that challenges previous knowledge. In general, SSI seems to be most efficient for students, who believe that they learn from presenting and discussing their knowledge, focus on "the large picture", acknowledge own responsibility for learning, find school science personally relevant and are self-efficacious. It seems that the outcomes from SSI work are much in the hands of the teacher. This paper is a short summary of the first year and quantitative part of the project. Further results from the project will later be found in our homepage (http://www.sisc.se).
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- Westerberg, Vicktoria, 1975-
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Skolans tillfälliga bakdörr? : en studie om den särskilda undervisningsgruppen i relation till skolans inkluderande uppdrag
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Although the Swedish compulsory school’s mission is inclusive, there are segregated settings available for students in need of special needs education. The special teaching group is such a setting, and according to the Education Act (SFS 2010:800, 3 chap. 11§) possible to apply when there are special reasons. This thesis aims to understand how the special teaching group is constructed in relation to the inclusive mission of school. To achieve this aim, four questions are answered: (1) How is the organization of the work with special teaching groups described? (2) How is the image constructed of the students placed in special teaching groups? (3) What expectations are made visible in the school staff's talk about support in special teaching groups? (4) How do the school staff talk about the considerations made when placing students in special teaching groups to receive support? The material analysed is derived from four collections of empirical material: one material consisting of data from 30 Swedish municipalities’ organisation of special teaching groups, one consisting of 48 action programs belonging to students placed in special teaching groups, one consisting of data from focus group interviews in which 14 teachers, special need teachers and principals participated, and one consisting of data from individual interviews with 30 principals. The focus of the thesis is the school staff's way of speaking and reasoning about the special teaching group, both in talk and in writing. The material has been analysed discursively: in a first step to show how discourses on an individual level are activated when school staff talk about the special teaching group, and in a second step to understand how talk at an individual level is enabled by various community level discourses linked to inclusion. The analysis shows that three societal discourses compete to fixate the meaning of inclusion. The three discourses offer different ways in which inclusion can be understood, and relate to knowledge, values or health. The analysis shows that school staff activates all three discourses, but they prioritize students’ health. The study contributes to an understanding of how the special teaching group offers an opportunity to meet the educational needs of students by opening an informal back door from the regular but unsatisfactory educational situation. At the same time, the study highlights the issue of how placement in a special teaching group does not contribute to creating an understanding of how mainstream teaching can meet the diverse needs of students in general. Nor does the placement generate the resources needed realizing it.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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Akademisk karriär i sociala nätverk
- 2013
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Ingår i: Kön och karriär i akademin. En studie inom det utbildningsvetenskapliga fältet.. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9781608057276 ; , s. 124-142
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Ottemo, Andreas, 1979, et al.
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Geek nostalgia: The reflective and restorative defence of white male geek culture
- 2024
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Ingår i: New Media and Society. - : Sage Publications. - 1461-4448 .- 1461-7315.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During recent decades, geek culture has become increasingly visible, and the geek has left the cultural margins, becoming more popular than ever. At the same time, nostalgia has emerged as a central component of geek culture. Framed by a post-structural understanding of gender and race and drawing on cultural theorist Svetlana Boym’s distinction between reflective and restorative nostalgia, this article explores how and why geeks nostalgically long for a time when they were largely marginalized. We combine readings of Swedish online geek podcasts and YouTube channels with ethnographic visits to geek conferences and pop-cultural “geek fairs,” such as Comic Con and SciFiWorld. We argue that geek nostalgia represents a clinging on to a “constitutive wound,” allowing the geek figure to mobilize masculine victimhood in ways that simultaneously underpin geek privilege and allow the geek to continue operating as a white male gatekeeper of geek culture.
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- Ottemo, Andreas, 1979, et al.
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Contextualizing technology: Between gender pluralization and class reproduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Science Education. - : Wiley. - 0036-8326 .- 1098-237X. ; 104:4, s. 693-713
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A diverse body of feminist scholarship has addressed the masculine orientation of Western engineering education for at least four decades. Among critiques specifically targeting curriculum, a recurrent line of argumentation highlights its reductionist framing and narrow focus on mathematics and technology. The argument is that these traits represent a masculine orientation and that women would gain from a curriculum more oriented towards the context and applicability of technical knowledge. Simultaneously, researchers working in a Bernsteinian, social realist, educational tradition have suggested that, from a social-class perspective, it is important to provide all students with access to theoretical, abstract and context-independent knowledge. This article explores the resultant, theoretical tension between these two positions. Our empirical starting point is a recently completed ethnographic study of a male-dominated bachelor's degree engineering program in Sweden. This program's curriculum repeatedly emphasizes the value of experiential and contextually rooted knowledge over contextless and mathematically modeled knowledge. Borrowing Bernstein's terminology, we argue that such emphasis represents a privileging of horizontal discourse over vertical and that, as such, said curriculum potentially deprives the male, working-class students of access to powerful knowledge. We further highlight how the program represents a poor target for the line of feminist critique identified above, despite being strongly male dominated. We thereby shed light on challenges related to formulating (intersectional) critiques of the engineering curriculum simultaneously attentive to both class and gender. Conclusively, we argue that efforts directed at making the engineering curriculum more inclusive can learn from both feminist and social realist lines of argumentation.
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- Angervall, Petra, 1970, et al.
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Studiens kontext, begreppsram och empiri
- 2013
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Ingår i: Kön och karriär i akademin. - Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. - 0436-1121. - 9789173467612 - 9789173467629 ; , s. 19-37
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Berge, Maria, et al.
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Searching for a viable approach to project work in engineering education
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 45th SEFI Annual Conference 2017 Education Excellence for Sustainability, Edited by JoséCarlos Quadrado; Jorge Bernardino; Joao Rocha. - Brussels, Belgium : European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). - 9789899887572
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many engineering departments across the world are moving towards implementing project-organised courses. In this paper we make the claim that there is a need for quality criteria for project work, given that research provides a mixed picture of what students can potentially learn in project work. The empirical data in this case study consists of ethnography, video-recordings, video-diaries and interviews, from one project work with four students taking a six weeks long course on machine elements. Our analysis shows that the students spend substantial amounts of time on activities with little or no value to their education, but that this is interspersed with very productive moments. In addition, our analysis showed that two of the students worked considerably less than the other two, but the assessment structure made this more or less invisible to the teacher. The analysis also illustrates the uneven nature of implementations of group work and we argue that as engineering educators we must implement approaches to project work that bring out and utilise the valuable parts, while actively suppressing less productive parts, thereby producing a shift towards being more ‘effective’.
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- Berge, Maria, 1979-, et al.
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Walking the line of being a geek or not: race, gender and re-surfacing stereotypes
- 2023
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Ingår i: ECER 2023: Programme, EERA , 2023 (Glasgow, UK). - : EERA.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Who is a geek? In popular media the geeks are often portrayed as the school’s losers who perform well in school but have low status (Salter and Blodget, 2017). The low status of the geek/nerd/swot/boffin in schools has had the implication of making it less attractive to study hard (Francis 2009, Jackson & Nyström, 2015). This is especially true for male students who do a balancing act to not be categorised as a geek or nerd (Asp-Onsjö & Öhrn, 2015; Nyström, 2012; Peltola & Phoenix, 2022). Different negative traits are connected to the geek label, such as not caring what to wear and not being sporty, and sometimes boys perform purposely less well in school to avoid this label (Nyström 2012). At the same time as this geek figure is ‘congenitally uncool’ the geek figure has always been strongly connected to science, technology and computer science, and the position of being a genius (Willey & Subramaniam, 2017). The idea of brilliant geekiness has been so powerful that people seeking to hire computer programmers have looked for signs of it as proof of intelligence and programming ability (Kendal 1999). The geek figure, the awkward genius, primarily white and male, has thus gatekeeping functions in technology. However, over the last decades the geek label has shifted significantly: from historically being associated with mockery and an outsider position, the geek has become increasingly dominant both in popular media as well as in economic and cultural structures (Salter and Blodget, 2017; Tocci 2009). This shift is partly displayed in how geeks are celebrated in real life, for example Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, but also how the geek figure has become a central one in popular media. The geek entrepreneur in movies such as Iron man and The Social Network answers ‘contemporary tensions within masculinity and capitalism’ (Mendick et al, 2021, p. 2). According to Tocci (2009), there are four overlapping images of geeks today: the Geek as a misfit, the Geek as a genius, the Geek as a fan and ‘Geek as chic’. The Geek as a misfit has low status and is awkward and the Geek as a genius (with the example of Bill Gates) is passionate about technology. Both these images are in line with how a geek has traditionally been conceived before. However, the Geek as a fan is described as into geeky hobbies (such as games, science-fiction, and other traditionally geeky media), but with a ‘shared sense of childlike playfulness, and potentially a purposeful resistance against broader norms of maturity’ (p. 322), which is not necessarily a low status position. The image of Geek as chic makes it not just okay to be a geek, but it is actually a high-status position, the geeks are thought to represent their own hip subculture of sorts and their own sense of style. How big this shift or movement is around the geek figure is contested and needs to be investigated, especially how the limits and borders have changed in relation to race and gender. There is also an urgent need to address if the geek figure still operates as gatekeeper to technology education. The aim of this study is to explore this shift around the geek figure by interviewing Swedish teenagers about what they think about geeks and geekiness today. Methods/methodology: We did group interviews with 32 students doing their third year in upper secondary school, all being 18-19 years old. These 32 students, 21 boys and 11 girls, were classmates in three different school programmes: the Natural Science Programme, the Technology Programme and the Social Science Programme. The students were asked about what a geek is and how it is possible to know if someone is a geek. We also asked if they saw themselves as geeks and if there are any good or bad sides of being a geek. To prompt them to speak of geekiness, we showed them four clips of people handling technology from four US films: Men in Black (1997) featuring Agent J, The Social Network (2010) a biopic of Mark Zuckerberg, Age of Ultron (2015) with Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, and The Black Panther (2018) with the Princess of Wakanda Shuri teasing her brother T’Challa/Black Panther. In our analysis we focused on how the geek figure was positioned by the students in the interviews, how the students related to the geek figure themselves and how the movie characters in the four selected clips were perceived by the students. The first step in our analysis was, after listening to all the interviews carefully, to select instances where geekiness or geeks were described, looking for storylines of geekiness: How do the students position the geek figure? Positioning is the discursive process that people use in conversations to arrange social structures (Davies and Harré, 1990), where positionings can be deliberate, inadvertent, presumptive or taken for granted (Harré et al., 2009). Positionings are always twofold, in that a positioning of someone else also implies a positioning of oneself, so what they express about geeks gives us clues about their own relationship to geekiness. Storylines that are linked to cultural contexts beyond the actual conversation unfold as participants are engaged in positioning themselves and others (Davies and Harré, 1990; Harré and Langenhove, 1999), for example that the geek has suffered and has unhealed wounds (Mendick et al, 2021) or the idea of STEM being a meritocracy (Willey & Subramaniam, 2017). We also analysed how the movie characters Agent J, Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, and Shuri and T’Challa were positioned by the students, with a special focus on race and gender. Expected outcomes/results: Our results illustrate how upper secondary Swedish students position geeks as belonging to one of two storylines: The storyline of the modern geek where it is cool to be a geek and the position is non-gendered and non-racialised, and The storyline of the stereotypical geek where the geek is white, male, socially awkward, and primally interested in technology. Since the students use the word ‘stereotypical’ when they talk about the low-status geek it is tempting to believe that this position is only a remnant of timed passed, but this storyline is still active in their narratives. For example, they position people at their own school as stereotypical geeks. These two storylines were interlinked. In the storyline of the modern geek the geek position is open for everyone, but this idea was simply not coherent with how many students did not let the character Shuri pass as a geek. The arguments for not positioning her as a geek (apart from being a woman and black), were that Shuri was too good-looking, too well-dressed and too social. Among all the characters we presented to participants, the character of Shuri was the one the students perceived as least authentic. This is interesting, because they continued saying that ‘[today] anyone can become a geek’ and that gender, race, class, and sexuality have no significance. In our reading, this parallel view of what a geek is keeps the myth of a geek meritocracy (Willey & Subramaniam, 2017) intact, at the same time as they clearly were more hesitant to position black women as geeks. Therefore, our data indicates that hopes that the pluralized modern geek position, i.e. ‘the geek is chic’ (Tocci, 2009) will provide a gateway into STEM for black female students are not well-founded.
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- Mendick, Heather, et al.
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How colour evasiveness reproduces whiteness in Swedish universities
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social Identities. - : Routledge. - 1350-4630 .- 1363-0296.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We analyse how the whiteness of science and technology in Swedish universities is reproduced using four interviews with undergraduates involved in groups that work on making their courses more inclusive. Combining discourse analysis with a phenomenological focus on bodies, we begin with their nuanced understandings of gender inequality. We contrast these with their professions of ignorance about ‘race’ and racism and how they naturalise their ignorance. We explore how they create relations of proximity that ‘other’ students of colour and embed racialised distinctions within equalities work. We understand this within a broader colour evasiveness (an extension of colour blindness) in which whiteness is conflated with Swedishness.
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- Öhrn, Elisabet, 1958, et al.
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Gender and career in academia.
- 2009
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the NERA congress in Trondheim 5-7 March..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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