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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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- 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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- Angervall, Petra, 1970-, et al.
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Academic Career : On institutions, social capital and gender
- 2018
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Ingår i: Higher Education Research and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0729-4360 .- 1469-8366. ; 37:6, s. 1095-1108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During decades of change in the Western higher education sector, new ways of understanding academic work have reinforced notions of the impact of social capital. The present study investigates researchers’ experiences of their own career making within two areas of Education Sciences in Swedish higher education: Childhood Studies (CS) and Science Education (SE). The structure at the CS departments is collaborative and integrated; teaching and research are seen as an entity. This structure creates a coherent career path where members of the collective group jointly produce and accumulate social capital; it also appears to be related to discourses of femininity. In the SE departments, the career structure is strategic and differentiated; the two career paths work in parallel through a differentiation between teaching and research. This appears to be related to discourses of masculinity. In conclusion, our analysis shows how social capital and gender mutually create different ways of doing an academic career.
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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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- Angervall, Petra, 1970-, et al.
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Assembling lines in research education : Challenges, choices and resistance among Swedish doctoral students
- 2019
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Ingår i: Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 2398-4686 .- 2398-4694. ; 10:2, s. 142-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The higher education sector in Sweden has, over decades, faced increasing demands in terms of efficiency rates in research, as well as increasing demands in the international competition for external revenue. These demands have influenced academic career trajectories and postdoctoral tracks as well as the everyday work of doctoral students. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how doctoral students express and challenge subjectivity in the present context of research education.Design/methodology/approach – The authors depart from the overall understanding that doctoral students’ lines of actions in research education depend on and form assemblages and, thus, define an academic institution. By re-analysing eight in-depth interviews, they illustrate how doctoral students from different milieus not only comply but also challenge, use border-crossings and change directions in research education.Findings – The results show that some of these doctoral students try to act as loyal and satisfied, especially in regard to their supervisors, whereas others use coping strategies and resistance. It is illustrated that when some of the students use “unsecure” molecular lines, they appear more open to redefining possibilities and change, in comparison with those on more stable molar lines. Those acting on molar lines sometimes express a lack of emotional (productive) engagement, even though this particular group tend to more often get access to rewarded assemblages. These patterns are partly gender-related.Social implications – The tension between finding more stable lines and spaces for change is apparent in doctoral students’ subjectivity, but also how this tension is related to gender. The women doctoral students appear not only more mobile but also in a sense more alert than their men peers. This offers insights in how actions define and redefine not only academic institutions but also different subjectivities.Originality/value – In the present, given the manifold demands on academic institutions, new insights and methodological approaches are necessary to illustrate how contemporary changes affect research education and the everyday life of doctoral students.
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- Angervall, Petra, et al.
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Gendered networks in academia
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper takes as a starting point the complexities and proposed changes of contemporary power relations within academia recognised throughout the Western world. For example, it is said that ‘traditional’ gender relations are losing ground as growing numbers of women position themselves in e.g. educational research (Murray & Maguire, 2007; Arnesen et al., 2008; HSV, 2008). However, the pattern is still that men occupy more senior positions (Ducklin & Ozga, 200; Kurtz-Costes et al., 2006; Silander, 2010). Notwithstanding, institutions are influenced by a growing performative discourse, which might affect the dominating power and gender relations in research work (Acker, 2008). Our paper presents preliminary findings from a Swedish research project, Gender and career in academia, the main aim of which is to develop knowledge about gender and other power relations within universities. Six academic institutions were selected to present a variety of departments of education/educational sciences according to location, size, major orientation, traditions, and externally funded research. We also interviewed approximately 120 doctoral students and junior researches, in order to map structures, positions and relations within research groups, and in doctoral programmes (Smith, 2005). Theoretically, we draw on Ball’s (2008, 2009), Rhodes’ (1997) and Newman’s (2001) ideas of governance and networks in institutional contexts. It is argued that academic institutions, departments and milieus vary with regard to social and economic capital (Bourdieu, 1986; Field, 2009; Lin, 2002), used as resources for power. These resources promote certain networks and groups before others, they condition scientific interests, and how positions are given and ordered, i.e. they enable different careers. We further agree with Connell (1996, 2002) and others who underline that gender can be performed differently depending on contexts, i.e. the power and gender regimes do not automatically follow the prevalent gender order. In this paper we focus on one of the six selected academic institutions. The aim is to show how individual and collective resources are provided and used from a power and gender perspective. A preliminary analysis shows that subject discipline, research traditions and external funding influence junior researchers’ possibilities to access horizontal and vertical networks and other career productive resources. Also, former supervisors are found to act as gatekeepers to networks and capital which condition career paths. Notions of gender and other social categories impact on junior researchers’ possibilities to be seen as ‘promising’ researchers with potentials to make a successful career. The analysis also illustrates how positions in the horizontal institutional network tend to affect positions provided by the vertical network. Resources (social, economic) used and provided in the horizontal network are often needed in order for the researcher to be admitted into the vertical network. Further, aspects of trust play an important role in the process, where institutional networks and different positions are established. We also argue that many vertical networks promote performativity and thereby exclude those (often women) lacking legitimacy and certain resources for power.
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- Berge, Maria, 1979-, et al.
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In search of the new engineer : gender, age, and social class in information about engineering education
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Engineering Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0304-3797 .- 1469-5898. ; 44:5, s. 650-665
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is widely argued that engineering education needs to change in order to attract new groups of students and provide students with knowledge appropriate for the future society. In this paper we, therefore, investigate and analyse Swedish universities’ websites, focusing on what characteristics are brought to the fore as important for tomorrow’s engineers. The data consist of text and pictures/photos from nine different Engineering Mechanics programme websites. Using a critical discourse analysis approach, we identify three societal discourses concerning ‘technological progression’, ‘sustainability’, and ‘neoliberal ideals’, evident in the websites. These discourses make certain engineering identities possible, that we have labelled: traditional, contemporary, responsible, and self-made engineer. Our analysis shows that universities’ efforts to diversify students’ participation in engineering education simultaneously reveal stereotypical norms concerning gender and age. We also argue that strong neoliberal notions about the self-made engineer can derail awareness of a gendered, classed, and racialized society.
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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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- Danielsson, Anna, et al.
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Engineering Identities: Affordances and Constraints of Different Methods for Exploring Engineering Students’ Identity Work
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Previous engineering education research concerned with inclusion and exclusion has typically focused on female underrepresentation and the identity work necessary for women in engineering (cf. Tonso 1999, Phipps 2008). This presentation has dual purposes; one empirical and one methodological. The empirical object under investigation is how social class is negotiated in male engineering students’ narratives about ‘educational choice’ and professional trajectories, with a particular focus on how trajectories into, through, and out of engineering educations are constructed. The methodological purpose is to discuss the affordances and constraints of using a small-scale ethnographic approach for exploring students’ identity constitution in the context of engineering education. The empirical data was collected within the bachelor Engineering Mechanics Programme (EMP) and consists of interviews with six engineering students, video-diaries recorded by the interviewed students, ethnographic field-notes from lectures and video-recordings or project work. Engineering educations are currently being transformed, both to attract new groups of students (e.g. women) and to provide the students with broader skill-sets than those traditionally included in engineering educations (e.g. team working skills). The EMP was chosen as it, as educating for a traditional branch of engineering, is likely to incorporate tensions between traditional and contemporary notions of engineering. The ethnographic observations and video-recordings of project work show an enactment of a passion for technology, but also an instrumental approach to the education and the completion of the project (see also, Ottemo 2015). The interviews and video-diaries provide additional means of exploring this passion/instrumental tension in relation to the students’ conceptualisation of engineering education practices, in particular the extent to which they take pride in the completion of the product of their project work. A reoccurring theme in the interviews and video-diaries is also students’ negotiations of tensions between practical and theoretical/analytical aspects of engineering, something that can be interpreted in relation to a doing of social class (Gonsalves et al. 2016). The presentation will discuss further examples of findings, as related to particular methods for data collection and how the data collection methods complement one another.
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- Danielsson, Anna, et al.
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Masculinities and social class in conceptualisations of the engineering mechanics programme
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Engineering educations are currently being transformed, both to attract new groups of students (e.g. women) and to provide the students with broader skill-sets than those traditionally included in engineering educations (e.g. team working skills). In this study we explore how students understand the educational opportunities provided by a particular engineering education, namely bachelor Engineering Mechanics Programme (EMP), with a particular focus on how the perceived opportunities are related to class and gender. The empirical data consists of engineering education websites, interviews with EMP students, and video-diaries recorded by the interviewed students. In the analysis of the websites four different, potential engineering identity positions were discerned: The engineer as a traditional technologist, the engineer as a contemporary technologist, the responsible engineer, and the self-made engineer. The initial analysis of the interviews and video-diaries bring tensions between practical and theoretical/analytical aspects of engineering to the fore, and we use two case studies of interviewed students to illustrate how these students nagivate the theory/practice dichotomy and the various identity positions available within the EMP.
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- Danielsson, Anna T., et al.
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"Although we are engineers, we will work with people too…"
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims at exploring how intersections of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity are negotiated in talk about the transition from being an engineering student to becoming an engineer. The empirical data consists of final year female engineering students’ narratives collected through video-diaries and interviews. Theoretically we draw on critical discursive psychology (Potter and Wetherell 1992). We investigate how female engineering students use different interpretative repertoires (Edley 2001), which can be described as specific and often contradicting ways of talking about a phenomenon in everyday conversations. Different repertoires are used strategically by people as a way to make sense of their actions and ideas by representing them as ‘good’ and ‘normal’ in the specific context. Wetherell and Potter (1992) argue that repertoires are related to social structures and power relations, which means that not all repertories are available for every individual. The concept of interpretative repertoires is helpful when it comes to analysing the students’ (in)ability to use different repertoires and, in this sense, the (im)possibility for them to achieve different subject positions when they talk about engineering studies and engineering. Power relations are upheld when some social positions becomes troubled, i.e. when a position is questioned or criticized in different ways, while another position is regarded as untroubled, i.e. as a normal and righteous identity that needs no further explaining (Wetherell 1998). The two positions, troubled/untroubled, help to analyze how and in what contexts notions of gender, age, social class and ethnicity are given importance in students’ talk. Our results show that the students are discursively produced as in need of ‘thick skin’. They are both seen as special and normal, too strong and too week, welcomed and pitted. Being older or born abroad is interpreted as unproblematic, but seems to produce invisibility and limited access to employability.
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- Danielsson, Anna, Professor, 1978-, et al.
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The Pride and Joy of Engineering? The Identity Work of Male Working-Class Engineering Students
- 2019
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Ingår i: Engineering Studies. - : Routledge. - 1937-8629 .- 1940-8374. ; 11:3, s. 172-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we explore the identity work done by four male, working-class students who participate in a Swedish mechanical engineering program, with a focus on their participation in project work. A focus on how individuals negotiate their participation in science and technology disciplines has proven to be a valuable way to study inclusion and exclusion in such disciplines. This is of particular relevance in engineering education where it is widely argued that change is needed in order to attract new groups of students and provide students with knowledge appropriate for the future society. In this study we conceptualized identity as socially and discursively produced, and focus on tracing students’ identity trajectories. The empirical data consists of ethnographic field notes from lectures, video-recordings of project work, semi-structured interviews, and video-diaries recorded by the students. The findings show that even though all four students unproblematically associate with the ‘technicist’masculinity of their chosen program it takes considerable work to incorporate the project work into their engineering trajectories. Further, ‘laddish’ masculinities re/produced in higher education in engineering also contribute to a ‘troubled’ identity trajectory for one of the interviewed students.
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- Ekesryd Nordström, Malin, 1971-
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Särskild begåvning i en förskola och skola för alla
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Based on four articles, this compilation thesis analyses different actors’ constructions of giftedness and ideas about meeting gifted children’s needs in preschool and early childhood educational settings. Previous research has highlighted gifted children’s need for early educational adaptations and support for their continued development and maintained desire for learning. Because children’s early educational experiences influence their continued cognitive, social and emotional development, constructions of giftedness at different societal levels surrounding the child were important to explore. Questions addressed included how pre- school personnel, principals and parents of gifted children talk about giftedness, how the construction of giftedness changes over time in Swedish daily press, and what meanings talk about giftedness have for gifted children’s provided education in preschool and school. The theoretical framework underpinning the entire thesis is social constructivism. In addition, special educational perspectives, Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory model, and discourse analysis were used to analyse the respondents’ understandings. Empirically, the thesis is based on material collected in four studies conducted between 2019-2021. These include an on-line questionnaire to preschool personnel (n=78), interviews with preschool teachers (10) and principals (5), interviews with parents (16), and an overview of Swedish newspaper articles about giftedness (n=72). Results show that constructions of giftedness create tensions by generating diverse ideas about the offered teaching in practice, alongside different views of hindering factors for providing an adequate education, organizational thresholds or lack of education about giftedness. Dilemmas included planning an education that meet the needs of all – as well as individual children’s needs. Another dilemma was naming someone gifted in a strong tradition of an egalitarian education. How preschool staff, principals, parents and newspaper debates construct giftedness is vital for making conscious choices and treatment of giftedness in a preschool and school for all.
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- Gonsalves, Allison, et al.
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"Brunkers and brave heroes" : Dominant Subject Positions in Figured Worlds of Construction Engineering
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research in engineering education has pointed to the need for new engineers to develop a broader skill-set with an emphasis on 'softer' social skills. However, there remains strong tensions in the identity work that engineers must engage in to balance the technical demands of the discipline with the new emphasis on heterogeneous skills. This study explores how three non-traditional students experience these tensions in the final year of their construction engineering program, across classroom and workplace experiences. We explore the dominant subject positions for students in construction engineering classroom and workplaces in a three-year Swedish engineering program. Results demonstrate that dominant soubject positions for construction engineers can trouble students' identity work as the move across classroom and workplace settings.
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- Gonsalves, Allison J., et al.
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"It’s not my dream, actually" : students' identity work across figured worlds of construction engineering in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of STEM education. - : Springer. - 2196-7822. ; 6:13, s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Research in engineering education has pointed to the need for new engineers to develop a broader skillsetwith an emphasis on “softer” social skills. However, there remains strong tensions in the identity work that engineersmust engage in to balance the technical demands of the discipline with the new emphasis on heterogeneous skills(Faulkner, Social Studies of Science 37:331–356, 2007). This study explores how three unconventional students experiencethese tensions in the final year of their construction engineering program, and as they move in and out of workplacefield experiences.Results: Using a figured worlds framework (Holland et al., Identity and agency in cultural worlds, 1998), we explore thedominant subject positions for students in construction engineering classroom and workplaces in a 3-year Swedishengineering program. Results demonstrate that dominant subject positions for construction engineers can troublestudents’ identity work as they move across classroom and workplace settings.Conclusions: This study expands our knowledge of the complexity of students’ identity work across classroom andworkplace settings. The emergence of classroom and workplace masculinities that shape the dominant subject positionsavailable to students are shown to trouble the identity work that students engage in as they move across these learningspaces. We examine students’ identity strategies that contribute to their persistence through the field. Finally, we discussimplications for teaching and research in light of students’ movements across these educational contexts.
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- Holmgren, Karoline, 1970-
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Vad är det som gör att matten blir så svår när de kommer till gymnasiet? : Skolpersonals uppfattningar om yrkeselevers måluppfyllelse i matematik
- 2020
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Att få en examen från gymnasieskolan är viktigt för både samhälle och individ. Utan fullständig examen riskerar unga att hamna i arbetslöshet och utanförskap. Mot bakgrund av detta är det oroande att ungefär 15 000 gymnasieelever i Sverige varje år avslutar sina gymnasiestudier utan att erhålla full examen. För elever på yrkesprogram visar nationell kartläggning att det största hindret för att nå en fullständig yrkesexamen är matematikkursen (Ma1a), som är den obligatoriska matematikkurs yrkeselever läser under sitt första gymnasieår.Denna licentiatavhandling fokuserar på yrkeselever och deras måluppfyllelse i matematik. Syftet är att bidra med kunskap om vad som enligt skolpersonal påverkar yrkeselevers måluppfyllelse i Ma1a. Syftet med studien är också att bidra med en övergripande bild av flera olika skolaktörers uppfattning om fenomenet.Studien är inspirerad av ett socialkonstruktivistiskt synsätt och baseras på semistrukturerade intervjuer med trettio skolaktörer som i sitt yrke kommer i kontakt med yrkeselever i risk att inte nå målen i Ma1a: pedagoger, skolsköterskor, skolkuratorer, studie- och yrkesvägledare samt rektorer. Studien analyserar skolpersonalens beskrivningar utifrån ett induktivt synsätt för att identifiera aspekter som påverkar yrkeselevernas måluppfyllelse.Resultatet visar att aspekter med påverkan på måluppfyllelsen i Ma1a inte bara har att göra med matematikundervisningen i klassrummet utan även andra delar av elevernas inlärningsmiljö spelar en betydande roll. Studien indikerar att relationsaspekter, emotionella aspekter såväl som aspekter med koppling till yrkeselevernas identifiering med det framtida yrket, spelar en central roll förmåluppfyllelsen. Flera av informanterna uppfattar yrkeselever som mer praktiskt lagda, något som beskrivs som en bakomliggande orsak till flera av aspekternamed negativ påverkan på måluppfyllelsen. Elevers upplevelser från tidigare skolgång uttrycks också som en bakomliggande orsak till flera av de aspekter som under gymnasietiden påverkar yrkeselevernas måluppfyllelse i Ma1a.De viktigaste slutsatserna som kan dras av studien är att andra aspekter än bara ämnesdidaktiska faktorer förefaller spela en viktig roll för yrkeseleversmåluppfyllelse i matematik. Resultatet indikerar hur både sociala och emotionella processer tillsammans med yrkeselevers identitetsskapande är aspekter som inte får glömmas bort i diskussionen om hur yrkeseleversmåluppfyllelse i matematik kan förbättras.
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- Junkala, Hannele, 1963-
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Balansakter - kroppar, sexualiteter och det oväntade : kritiska och didaktiska perspektiv på sexualundervisning inom biologiämnet
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sexuality education (SE) involves topics that can be perceived as sensitive and private, which creates challenges for teachers. Teachers in Sweden feel uncomfortable with the subject of SE, as they lack knowledge about LGBTQ issues and experience uncertainty in handling charged discussions. Therefore, teachers need tools for teaching this subject, regarding both the content itself and the teaching methods. Aiming to facilitate inclusive SE, this thesis thus contributes to the knowledge of contemporary SE in Sweden. Two studies were conducted: the first addressing Swedish Biology textbooks in grades 7-9, and the second involving classroom observations in three different teachers’ SE teaching in grade 8. These studies were developed into four papers.Paper 1 presents a content analysis of five Swedish Biology textbooks using feminist, crip and queer perspectives. The results show that trans persons, homosexuality, bisexuality, and heterosexuality are standard content. Representations of disabilities are sparse, while intersex and asexuality are not included. In paper 2, Swedish whiteness is analysed in the textbooks and teacher interviews through the lens of critical race theory. The findings reveal that references to legislation, science, progression, ethnicity, tradition, and culture construct Swedish whiteness as a ‘happy’ place ‘here’, in contrast to less happy places elsewhere, far away ‘there’. Paper 3 concerns different tensions that arise during classroom teaching and how teachers balance these situations. Both the anti-oppressive strategies and the teaching methods focused on processes, facts, and relations are analysed. The results show that teachers can use tensions in SE to challenge prejudice and heteronormative assumptions. Also, teachers’ inclusion of students’ thoughts and worlds, even around controversial topics, creates recognition, subjectification, and meaning making for the students. Paper 4 explores how teachers handle unexpected situations in SE classrooms. The short interruptions are analysed through the theoretical concepts becomings, intensity, and glow.According to the results, when teachers capture unexpected comments, student engagement is aroused, allowing new concepts to enrich the SE content. In sum, this thesis concludes that SE needs to embrace more diverse content. This could be achieved through fluid conceptions of bodies and sexualities, thus facilitating students' recognition and subjectification, especially through the inclusion of nuances of asexuality, alternative family constellations, intersex, and crip. Finally, teachers need to welcome tensions and the unexpected as rich possibilities to capture new SE content and to create student engagement.
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- Junkala, Hannele, 1963-, et al.
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Diversity in sex and relationship education – limitations and possibilities in Swedish biology textbooks
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Routledge. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 22:5, s. 521-537
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Shortcomings in sex and relationship education (SRE) related to norms and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexuality (LGBTQIA) perspectives have been reported internationally and in Sweden. This paper reports on findings from a critical study of SRE content in Swedish biology textbooks for 13- to 16-year-old pupils, with the aim of revealing which sexual orientations and bodies are made visible or invisible in the texts. About 200 quotations were selected and analysed, quantitatively and qualitatively, with a focus on limitations and possibilities. The results show that LGBT content is visible in all SRE chapters. However, sexual orientation is often constructed as fixed. Furthermore, stereotypical gender binaries are reinforced via heteronormative assumptions regarding hormones, genitals and reproduction, focusing on differences instead of similarities, and thus limiting the potential to widen non-binary perceptions of bodies and sexualities. Our quantitative analyses reveal that there are few, if any, queer, intersex, asexual or crip/disability representations. If gaps in young people’s knowledge regarding norms, intersex, asexuality, queer and crip sexualities are to be filled in order to promote equality and diversity, it is important to rethink the SRE content of Swedish biology textbooks.
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- Mendick, Heather, et al.
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Geek Entrepreneurs: The Social Network, Iron Man and the Reconfiguration of Hegemonic Masculinity
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0958-9236 .- 1465-3869. ; 32:3, s. 283-295
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we argue that the geek entrepreneur is a new hegemonic masculine formation superseding the macho formation exemplified by John Wayne and the global business masculinity proposed as hegemonic by Connell and Messerschmidt more recently. This formation fuses the technological genius and suffering of geekiness with the disruption and innovation of entrepreneurialism. It is the masculinity of the geek entrepreneur that today legitimates both male domination and capitalism. We construct this argument through looking in detail at two cinematic representations of the geek entrepreneur: Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network and Tony Stark in Iron Man. We hope to open up a debate about how gendered discursive formations have changed since the 1980s, what masculinity is now hegemonic, and how this can illuminate gender and other power relations.
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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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- Mendick, Heather, 1970, et al.
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Popular culture geeks, suffering, revenge and mathematics
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 40(3). - : British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- From The Big Bang Theory to Stranger Things, geek characters are increasingly central to contemporary popular culture. They may be primarily into technology or science but this is always grounded in extraordinary mathematical skills. As Tony Stark says in Iron Man “If my math is right, and it always is...”. In this article, we map one aspect of how the pop culture geek is represented: suffering-revenge narratives. We use the Mark Zuckerberg biopic The Social Network as an archetypal example and argue that while suffering and revenge have always been part of geek representations, they are increasingly taking on misogynistic forms. These narratives legitimate the gendered policing of online geek spaces and wider sexism. As a contrast, we look at working-class Latina female geek Betty Aurora Rincón in the television series Betty en NY showing how she responds to suffering with forgiveness and empathy rather than revenge.
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- Mollwing, Jonas, 1980-
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Om mäns pro- och antifeministiska engagemang
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overarching aim of the thesis is to describe and analyze men’s pro- and antifeminist engagement. Men’s approach to feminism is assumed to be created in the interaction of men’s intentions and a sociocultural structure that conditions human action. Men want something that they perceive that feminism enables or constrains, after which they engage for or against it. The men’s views on feminism were extracted from interviews, social media, books, and newspaper articles. A host of philosophical assumptions, general analytical theories, and specific analytical tools were used in processing the empirical data. In the first part of the findings, profeminist men are understood to view feminism as a force that enables them to accomplish important projects in their lives. They express a wish to improve both women’s and men’s lives through the practice of changing men and masculinity. Above all, their efforts focus on changing themselves. In the second part of the findings, antifeminist men are understood to experience feminism as a force that constrains them in their lives. They oppose feminism on several issues: women’s subordinated position in the gender order, the social construction of gender, and men’s violence towards women. They fear that state feminism is pushing a hatred of men that threatens individual men, nuclear families, and Western civilization. The third part of the findings consists of a model of men’s approach to feminism. In the model, men’s differing approaches hinges on whether they believe that feminism enables or constrains them and other people in their quest to satisfy basic human needs. Their understandings of if and how the needs are being met are central to how men approach feminism. In this understanding, the men are influenced by their respective ideological beliefs on how the gender order should be organized. The thesis ends with two methodological musings. The first revolves around the author’s development of a deeper understanding of the antifeminist worldview and how that came to rub against his profeminist way of viewing the world. The second reflects on researchers’ understandable but counterproductive tendency of trying to protect their research from all criticism.
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- Nyroos, Mikaela, 1973-, et al.
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Exploring the presence of test anxiety and its relation to mathematical achievement in a sample of grade 3
- 2012
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Ingår i: Skrifter från Svensk förening för matematikdidaktisk forskning. - Linköping : Svensk förening för matematikdidaktisk forskning. - 1651-3274. ; , s. 151-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present study aims at exploring if a sample of Swedish grade 3 pupils reported any test anxiety and whether there were any relations to performance in different mathematical areas. Overall, test anxiety explained 20% of the variance for the total mathematical score, with the subscale “thoughts” as the significant predictor. The model of test anxiety also explained Number understanding, Mass and Time, Patterns, and Mathematical problems; however Mental arithmetic and Written arithmetic algorithms were not significantly explained by the model. Test anxiety seems not to be a major problem in this sample; still, significant negative correlations were found, which likely might influence the pupils in some aspects.
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- Nyström Silfver, Eva, 1958-
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Ett två ett två
- 2009
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. - Malmö : Föreningen Tidskrft för genusvetenskap. - 1654-5443 .- 2001-1377. ; :1, s. 36-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Spelar kön någon roll när man arbetar som lärare i naturvetenskap eller disciplineras kvinnliga och manliga naturvetenskapslärare in i ett visst sätt att tänka? Under en stavgångstur funderar Eva Nyström på om kön har betydelse när man undervisar och på utbildning som inträdesbiljett till svensk identitet.
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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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- 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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Gender, Passion, and ‘Sticky’ Technology in a Voluntaristically-Organized Technology Makerspace
- 2023
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Ingår i: Engineering Studies. - : Routledge. - 1937-8629 .- 1940-8374. ; 15:2, s. 101-121
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As ‘open’ and supposedly inclusive informal learning settings that participants visit out of interest and passion, there has been hope that makerspaces will democratize technology and challenge traditional gender patterns in engineering education. Passion for technology has, however, also been shown to be deeply intertwined with the masculinization of engineering. This article explores how this tension manifests among engineering students and other makers at an ‘open’ voluntaristically-organized technology makerspace located at the campus of a Swedish university of technology. It draws on a post-structural understanding of gender and Sara Ahmed’s queer-phenomenological conceptualization of emotions as ‘orienting devices’. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with makers, we show how passion for technology is articulated as a particularly absorbing emotion that underpins a playful approach to technology and a framing of makers as single-minded and asocial. We demonstrate how passion for technology thereby becomes a homosocial ‘glue’ that makes technology ‘sticky’ for only a select group of techno-passionate men. We conclude that this undermines the potential for ‘making’ to democratize technology and puts into question the degree to which interest-driven, voluntaristic and ‘authentic’ settings for engaging with technology can contribute to pluralizing engineering.
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Praktiknära pedagogisk forskning i det lärande nordiska nätverket Gemensamma Vägar : en antologi
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- I den här boken presenteras olika forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt om lärande, lärmiljöer, profession och digitalisering inom det utbildningsvetenskapliga fältet. Boken ger en mångfasetterad bild av vad, hur och varför forskning och utvecklingsarbete är essentiellt för att skapa ny kunskap och fördjupad förståelse för hur förskolan, skola och utbildning kan utvecklas, men också hur forskning och beprövad erfarenhet behöver förenas. Vi som varit engagerade i bokens tillkomst kommer från Sverige, Norge eller Finland men gemensamt är arbete inom skola/förskola och utbildning på olika sätt. Flera av kapitlen har ett särskilt fokus på specialpedagogiska frågor vilket är en av de saker som genom åren fört oss samman under konferensen Gemensamma Vägar, vars syfte är att deltagarna skall få tillgång till forskning och pedagogisk kompetens som finns vid de nordligaste universiteten i Sverige, Norge och Finland. Vi hoppas och tror att boken blir värdefull för dig som är lärare, forskare, eller student och som intresserar dig för att bidra till arbetet att utveckla skola och undervisning.
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958-, et al.
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An 'appropriate' test taker : the everyday classroom during the national testing period in school year three in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ethnography and Education. - : Routledge. - 1745-7823 .- 1745-7831. ; 11:3, s. 237-252
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article draws on data from a bigger project where we explore what is taking place in the daily life of classrooms during the national testing period in mathematics for nine- to ten-year-old children in Sweden. Data was produced by observations, video-recordings, and interviews with children. The article shows on a micro level how assessment trends, on a macro level, affect children. It further focuses how children through different repertoires of time position themselves as 'appropriate' test takers.
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958-, et al.
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Changing Our Methods and Disrupting the Power Dynamics : National Tests in Third-Grade Classrooms
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - Edmonton, Canada : University of Alberta, Int. Inst. of Qualitative Methodology, Edmonton Clinic in Health Academy, Edmonton, Canada. - 1609-4069. ; 12, s. 39-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports on a research project relating to the newly implemented mandatory Swedish national mathematics tests for third-grade students (aged nine and ten). The project’s main research concerns the students’ ideas about and reactions towards these tests and how the specific test situation affects their perception of their own mathematical proficiency. Drawing on theories which suggest that identities are more fluid than static, we want to understand how students with special needs are ‘created’. The specific aim of this paper is to discuss how our research methods have been refined during the various phases of data collection and the resulting implications. It discusses issues surrounding child research and how methods involving video recording and video stimulated recall dialogue (VSRD) can contribute to research on children’s experiences. Particular attention is given to methodological and ethical issues; how to disrupt power relations, for example. In this paper we argue that the context of the test situation not only impacted upon the students but also affected how we changed, developed and adapted our approaches as the project evolved.
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958-, et al.
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Classroom bodies : affect, body language, and discourse when schoolchildren encounter national tests in mathematics
- 2020
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Ingår i: Gender and Education. - : Routledge. - 0954-0253 .- 1360-0516. ; 32:5, s. 682-696
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to analyse how Swedish grade three children are discursively positioned as pupils when they are taking national tests in mathematics and when they reflect on the testing situation afterwards. With support from theories about affective-discursive assemblages, we explore children's body language, emotions, and talk in light of the two overarching discourses that we believe frame the classroom: the 'testing discourse' and the 'development discourse'. Through the disciplinary power of these main discourses children struggle to conduct themselves in order to become recognized as intelligible subjects and 'ideal pupils'. The analysis, when taking into account how affects and discourses intertwine, shows that children can be in 'untroubled', 'troubled', or ambivalent subject positions.
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958-, et al.
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Gender equality as a resource and a dilemma : interpretative repertoires in engineering education in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Gender and Education. - : Routledge. - 0954-0253 .- 1360-0516. ; 34:8, s. 923-939
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how female university students’ abilities to present themselves as ‘authentic’ engineers are imbricated with discursive constructions of gender and gender equality. The empirical data comes from interviews and video diaries collected with three female engineering students. The analysis demonstrates the power of the Swedish gender equality discourse to inform the students’ talk as they negotiate their gendered identities to become intelligible as engineering students and engineers. We suggest that gender equality is used as a resource in the repertoires, but we also demonstrate that this discourse becomes a dilemma in that it limits possibilities for gender performances to go beyond old patterns. Despite this, the article still shows three unique ways of negotiating gender and other social categories in different situations connected to university learning and participation in internships.
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958-
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High-Stakes testing in Sweden : John's Story
- 2014
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Ingår i: Childhood Explorer. - Washington, DC : Association for Childhood Education International. - 2377-2883. ; 1:4, s. 6-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- High-stakes, standardized testing has become the central tool for education reform and regulation in many countries. In Sweden, students’ scores on international tests like PISA and TIMSS have been decreasing year by year. The Minister of Education argues that the poor international test results are putting the Swedish economy at risk, and he has decided to reintroduce national tests in mathematics and Swedish for younger children as a way to overcome this “failure.”
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958-, et al.
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"It’s a very wide education" : Class and gender in students' conceptualisations of the engineering mechanics programme
- 2017
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Ingår i: GEA conference 2017. - London : Middlesex University. ; , s. 56-57
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims at exploring how intersections of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity are negotiated in talk about the transition from being an engineering student to becoming an engineer. The empirical data consists of final year female engineering students’ narratives collected through video-diaries and interviews. Theoretically we draw on critical discursive psychology (Potter and Wetherell 1992). We investigate how female engineering students use different interpretative repertoires (Edley 2001), which can be described as specific and often contradicting ways of talking about a phenomenon in everyday conversations. Different repertoires are used strategically by people as a way to make sense of their actions and ideas by representing them as ‘good’ and ‘normal’ in the specific context. Wetherell and Potter (1992) argue that repertoires are related to social structures and power relations, which means that not all repertories are available for every individual. The concept of interpretative repertoires is helpful when it comes to analysing the students’ (in)ability to use different repertoires and, in this sense, the (im)possibility for them to achieve different subject positions when they talk about engineering studies and engineering. Power relations are upheld when some social positions becomes troubled, i.e. when a position is questioned or criticized in different ways, while another position is regarded as untroubled, i.e. as a normal and righteous identity that needs no further explaining (Wetherell 1998). The two positions, troubled/untroubled, help to analyze how and in what contexts notions of gender, age, social class and ethnicity are given importance in students’ talk. Our results show that the students are discursively produced as in need of ‘thick skin’. They are both seen as special and normal, too strong and too week, welcomed and pitted. Being older or born abroad is interpreted as unproblematic, but seems to produce invisibility and limited access to employability.
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958-, et al.
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Shifting discourses on giftedness in Swedish newspaper media – what’s the problem represented to be?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Routledge. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170.
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- The purpose of this article is to explore how public discussions on giftedness and gifted students are framed in two of Sweden’s leading newspapers over a 25-year period (1995-2019). We explored discourse within 72 articles, using a time-sensitive analysis combined with a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach. The results show that the concept of giftedness became established during the period, although there were also counter-discourses questioning what ‘giftedness’ means and how schools should be organised. There is a lack of more in-depth discussions about how social class, ethnicity, or gender can affect how students are regarded in school, or how teaching can affect intellectual development. Instead, there is a strong stance in favour of individualised teaching.
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- Silfver, Eva, 1958-
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Smittsam och lärorik
- 2010
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Ingår i: Modern barndom. - : Reggio Emilia Institutet. - 1400-0733. ; 4:10, s. 19-19
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