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

Autor/inn/en	Archer, Louise; Moote, Julie; Francis, Becky; DeWitt, Jennifer; Yeomans, Lucy
Titel	The "Exceptional" Physics Girl: A Sociological Analysis of Multimethod Data from Young Women Aged 10-16 to Explore Gendered Patterns of Post-16 Participation
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 54 (2017) 1, S.88-126 (39 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831216678379
Schlagwörter	Females; Womens Education; Physics; Science Instruction; Disproportionate Representation; Student Surveys; Interviews; Secondary School Students; Academic Aspiration; Cultural Influences; Student Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Longitudinal Studies; Sex Stereotypes; Femininity; Masculinity; Likert Scales; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Physik; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Schülerbefragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sekundarschüler; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Ausland; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Männlichkeit; Likert-Skala
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01