Rethinking the "Problem" of Gender and IT Schooling: Discourses in Literature

Autor/in	Abbiss, Jane
Titel	Rethinking the "Problem" of Gender and IT Schooling: Discourses in Literature
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 20 (2008) 2, S.153-165 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
Schlagwörter	Student Interests; Information Technology; Gender Differences; Gender Issues; Computer Attitudes; Computer Literacy; Sex Stereotypes; Computer Uses in Education; Equal Education; Power Structure; Access to Computers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studieninteresse; Informationstechnologie; Geschlechterkonflikt; Geschlechterfrage; Computerkenntnisse; Computernutzung
Abstract	A review of the international research literature pertaining to gender and information technology (IT) schooling reveals changing ideas about what constitutes a gender problem. Much of the literature is concerned with gender differences in computer uses and interests and perceived disadvantages accruing to females as a result of these differences. This reflects and contributes to a dominant liberal equity discourse. Growing awareness of the limitations of earlier research, the changing nature of IT schooling, contradictions in students' computer interests and dissatisfaction with simplistic explanations has led, however, to post-structural rethinking and the emergence of a critical discourse. Assumptions of essential differences and deficit ways of thinking are challenged. Persistent gender differences in IT use are explored in their social complexity and the very notion that there is a gender problem is problematised. This presents a different and ultimately more satisfying way of thinking about the problem of gender and IT schooling. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10