The "Exceptional" Physics Girl: A Sociological Analysis of Multimethod Data From Young Women Aged 10-16 to Explore Gendered Patterns of Post-16 Participation

被引：87
作者：
Archer, Louise [1 ]
Moote, Julie [2 ]
Francis, Becky [3 ]
DeWitt, Jennifer [2 ]
Yeomans, Lucy [2 ]
机构：
[1] Kings Coll London, Sch Educ Commun & Soc, Sociol Educ, London WC2R 2LS, England
[2] Kings Coll London, Sch Educ Commun & Soc, London WC2R 2LS, England
[3] UCL, Inst Educ, London WC1E 6BT, England
来源：
AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL | 2017年 / 54卷 / 01期
基金：
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词：
femininity; identity; Judith Butler; physics; science; STEM; SCIENCE-EDUCATION; SCHOOL SCIENCE; STUDENTS; ACHIEVEMENT; ATTITUDES; CAREER; ASPIRATIONS; SCIENTISTS; IDENTITIES; FEMININITY;
D O I：
10.3102/0002831216678379
中图分类号：
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号：
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要：
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 identityan endeavor in which some girls are better positioned to be successful than others.
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页码：88 / 126
页数：39
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