International Response for Part I: Bridging the Gaps Between Policy and Practice on Equity for Science Education Reforms

2012 ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Hung Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
International Response

scholarly journals The “Exceptional” Physics Girl

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Archer ◽  
Julie Moote ◽  
Becky Francis ◽  
Jennifer DeWitt ◽  
Lucy Yeomans
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Career Aspirations ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative

Female underrepresentation in postcompulsory physics is an ongoing issue for science education research, policy, and practice. In this article, we apply Bourdieusian and Butlerian conceptual lenses to qualitative and quantitative data collected as part of a wider longitudinal study of students’ science and career aspirations age 10–16. Drawing on survey data from more than 13,000 year 11 (age 15/16) students and interviews with 70 students (who had been tracked from age 10 to 16), we focus in particular on seven girls who aspired to continue with physics post-16, discussing how the cultural arbitrary of physics requires these girls to be highly “exceptional,” undertaking considerable identity work and deployment of capital in order to “possibilize” a physics identity—an endeavor in which some girls are better positioned to be successful than others.

scholarly journals U.S. Science education reforms: is astronomy being overlooked?

1998 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 273-276
Author(s):  
D.B. Hoff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Science Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Excellence In Education ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Gathering Data

In 1981, in response to growing concerns that the United States was falling behind the rest of the world educationally, the federal Secretary of Education created a national commission on excellence in education. This commission was charged with gathering data about the status of U.S. education compared to the rest of the developed world and to define the problems which would have to be faced to successfully pursue the course of excellence in education.

scholarly journals Doctors' values, resilience and professionalism

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
Demographic Shift ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Recruitment And Retention ◽  
International Response ◽  
The Social

In 2001, Richard Smith, then editor of the BMJ, asked why doctors were so unhappy. He provoked a huge international response. The suggested reasons included: changes in the social structures of work; the demographic shift and difficulties in the recruitment and retention of staff; the replacement of trust with accountability; changes in relationships with people and bodies that are responsible for policy and practice; and negative media reporting.

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