The political is personal: reflections on facilitating action research in gender issues in science education

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Nyhof-Young
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Political ◽  
Personal Reflections

Personal, political, professional

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niki WALLACE
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reflective Practices ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Participant Engagement ◽  
Auto Ethnography

It is widely agreed that in order to contribute to transitions towards sustainability, both practitioners and design itself must also transition. This paper presents findings from the first two years of transition in my Australian-based design practice. The paper explores what this transition has required of me personally, politically, and professionally, and draws on cases from my PhD. The PhD and paper are both part of an analytic auto-ethnography of my practice’s transition from ‘making greener things’ towards design for transitions. The projects discussed use ethnography, action research and reflective practices in their temporal approaches. This paper explores how slower methods such as transition design and autonomous design can extend the political reach of a design practice and discusses sacrifice and the financial stabilisation that comes from enveloping old practices within the new. The analysis presented here also reflects on my experiences practicing design for transitions and on data collected through participant engagement.

scholarly journals História da Ciência e relações de gênero: a publicação de “Sir Isaac Newton’s philosophy explained for de use of ladies. In six dialogues on light and colours”

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Leandro Londero ◽  
Monica Abrantes Galindo ◽  
Marcos Serzedello
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Education History ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Maternal Role ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

Resumo: Analisamos na tradução feita para o inglês, por Elisabeth Carter, em 1739, a obra de Francesco Algarotti “Sir Isaac Newton’s philosophy explain’d for the use of ladies. In six dialogues on light and colours”. Buscamos compreender os aspectos que a caracterizam como uma publicação para damas e identificar possíveis questões de gênero. Identificamos na obra uma tendência machista na ciência e elementos que evidenciam um imaginário de que a mulher não teria as qualidades necessárias para compreender a ciência, elementos esses coerentes com a transição de um período em que as mulheres eram consideradas inferiores em todos os aspectos para um outro no qual a construção do papel materno aparece como fundante de uma concepção de mulher não mais inferior, mas fundamentalmente diferente do homem e com papeis complementares a ele. Podemos dizer que esses imaginários podem influenciar as possibilidades de participação das mulheres na empreitada científica.Palavras-chave: Educação em Ciências; História da Ciência; Ciência e Sociedade (Gênero). History of Science and gender relations: a publication of “Sir Isaac Newton’s philosophy explained for de use of ladies. In six dialogues on light and colours”Abstract: We analyze Elisabeth Carter's 1739 translation of Francesco Algarotti's "Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy explain'd for the use of ladies. In six dialogues on light and colors. "We seek to understand the aspects that characterize it as a publication for ladies and to identify possible gender issues. We identified in the work a macho tendency in science and elements that evidence an imaginary that women would not have the qualities necessary to understand science, elements that are consistent with the transition from a period in which women were considered inferior in all respects to a another in which the construction of the maternal role appears as the founder of a conception of woman no longer inferior but fundamentally different from man and with roles complementary to him. We can say that these imaginary can influence the possibilities of participation of women in the scientific enterprise.Keywords: Science Education, History of Science; Science and Society (Gender). 

'We got the power!' The political potential of street choirs

Soundings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (73) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Campaign Choirs Writing Collective
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The World ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Song has the power to express a social truth and is consistently employed in actions across the world in solidarity with political struggle. This article discusses the campaigning work of the Campaign Choirs Network, a UK network of radical political choirs, whose story is founded on diverse solidarities and a commitment to singing as a means of emotional engagement and pedagogy. The network has conducted a participatory action research programme, including oral history interviews with 42 members of 11 street choirs, exploring members' life-course activism and their utopian imaginaries. As one aspect of their research, the authors sought to more fully understand the emotions that song and singing release, and the connections that can then be made between people – in order to find out more about the nature of the power of song and the political possibilities of such connections. Drawing extensively on the interviews, this article discusses the political and pedagogic possibilities of the emotions released through singing.

"May the Best Man Win": Local Government Representatives

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Osnat Akirav
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Talented People

The research asks two questions related to each other. First, why do people who are successful in fields other than politics not want to become more active in politics? Second, what are the preferred characteristics of a political leader? In order to address these questions we conducted an action research involving changes in the patterns of political participation and used Dror’s (2008) model to determine the preferred characteristics of a political leader. The research, the first in its kind in the field of local government field, tried to create professional change and system change. Today, a year after the action research began; it deepens our understanding about how local council members work and allows us to implement changes based on an evaluation process in order to improve the decision-making process in the local government. Eventually, perhaps this process will attract talented people who have previously avoided political participation to engage more with the political process.

Gender issues in international relations: the case of the European Community

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hoskyns
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
European Community ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Women's Politics

This article takes a concern with gender as the starting point for looking at some of the political processes and structures that have grown up within the European Community. Such an approach reveals new contours to the EC system and throws a fresh light on features hitherto regarded as ‘normal’. Though the focus is on the EC, it is argued that the results of an analysis of this kind have a wider significance. Thus the article is intended as a contribution to the growing engagement between ‘women's politics’ in its broadest sense and the theory and practice of international relations.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER (NHT) DALAM UPAYA UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEAKTIFAN DAN HASIL BELAJAR MAHASISWA PRODI PENDIDIKAN IPA UST YOGYAKARTA TAHUN AKADEMIK

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tias Ernawati
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Know How ◽  
Natural Science Education ◽  
Academic Year

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui model pembelajaran NHT dapat meningkatkan keaktifan dan prestasi belajar mahasiswa Prodi Pendidikan IPA tahun ajaran 2013/2014. Jenis penelitian adalah penelitian tindakan kelas yang terdiri dari dua siklus. Masing-masing siklus berisi perencanaan, pelaksanaan, observasi dan refleksi. Instrumen penelitian antara lain lembar observasi dosen, lembar observasi siswa, tes hasil belajar dan angket keaktifan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terjadi peningkatan keaktifan. Pada diskusi siklus I ada 52,5% siswa aktif dan pada diskusi terakhir siklus II ada 90,8% siswa aktif. Rata-rata hasil belajar siswa meningkat 15,3 poin, dari 63,2 menjadi 78,5. Kata kunci: model NHT, keaktifan, hasil belajar Abstract: This research has been done to know how NHT as a model of study could increase activity and achievement the students of natural science education department on 2013/2014 of academic year. This was a class action research. This research consisted of two cycles. Each cycles was consist of planning, doing, observing and reflecting. The instruments of this research were lecture-observing papers, students-observing papers, evaluating papers and statements papers. The result showed increasing of students’ activity. At first discussion on first cycles, there were 52.5% active students, at last discussion on second cycles there were 90.8% active students. The average of students’ achievement has increased 15.3 points, i.e. from 63.2 to 78.5. Keywords: NHT’s model, activity, achievement

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