Understanding student participation and choice in science and technology education. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ellen Karoline Henriksen, Justin Dillon, Jim Ryder, editors.
• Editors: Henriksen, Ellen Karoline; Dillon, Justin; Ryder, J. G (Jim G.)
• Contents: Introduction: Participation in science and technology education -- presenting the challenge and introducing project IRIS -- Section 1:Theoretical perspectives on educational choice -- Chapter 1: Expectancy-value perspectives on STEM choice in late-modern societies -- Chapter 2. A narrative approach to understand students' identities and choices -- Chapter 3: Gender, STEM studies and educational choices. Insights from feminist perspectives -- Section 2: Interest and participation in STEM from primary school to phD -- Chapter 4: STEM attitudes, interests and career choice -- Chapter 5: Science aspirations and gender identity: Lessons from the ASPIRES project -- Chapter 6: The impact of science curriculum content on students' subject choices in post-compulsory schooling -- Chapter 7: A place for STEM: Probing the reasons for undergraduate course choices -- Chapter 8: Short stories of educational choice -- in the words of science and technology students -- Chapter 9: Understanding declining science participation in Australia: A systemic perspective -- Chapter 10: Choice patterns of PhD students: why should i pursue a PhD? -- Chapter 11: The impact of outreach and out-of-school activities on Norwegian upper secondary students' STEM motivations -- Section 3: Staying in STEM, leaving STEM? -- Chapter 12: Why do students in stem higher education programmes drop/opt out? Explanations offered from research -- Chapter 13: What makes them leave and where do they go? Non-completion and institutional departures in STEM -- Chapter 14: The first-year experience: Students' encounter with science and engineering programmes -- Chapter 15: Keeping pace. Educational choice motivations and first-year experiences in the words of Italian students -- Section 4: Applying feminist perspectives to understand STEM participation -- Chapter 16: When research challenges gender stereotypes: Exploring narratives of girls' educational choices -- Chapter 17: Italian female and male students' choices: STEM studies and motivations -- Chapter 18: Being a woman in a man's place or being a man in a women's place: insights into students' experiences of science and engineering at university -- Chapter 19: Italian students' ideas about gender and science in late modern societies. interpretations from a feminist perspective -- Section 5: Understanding and improving STEM participation: Conclusions and recommendations -- Chapter 20: Understanding student participation and choice in science and technology education: The contribution of IRIS -- Chapter 21: Improving participation in science and technology higher education: Ways forward -- Appendix: The IRIS questionnaire: Brief account of instrument development, data collection and respondents.
• Publisher Details: New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (408 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 507.1; Science -- Study and teaching; Technology -- Study and teaching; Science -- Study and teaching; Technology -- Study and teaching; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789400777934; 9400777930
• Related ISBNs: 9789400777927
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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