A Critique of the Stem Pipeline: Young People's Identities in Sweden and Science Education Policy. Issue 4 (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mendick, Heather; Berge, Maria; Danielsson, Anna
• Is Part Of: British journal of educational studies. Volume 65:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 481
• Page End: 497
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: ethnicity -- gender -- policy -- science -- social class -- STEM pipeline; Education -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 370.5
• DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2017.1300232
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0007-1005

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article, we develop critiques of the pipeline model which dominates Western science education policy, using discourse analysis of interviews with two Swedish young women focused on 'identity work'. We argue that it is important to unpack the ways that the pipeline model fails to engage with intersections of gender, ethnicity, social class and nationality, and their impact on science and with debates about science as elitist and implicated in neoliberalism.