Feminist technoscience as a resource for working with science practices, a critical approach, and gender equality in Swedish higher IT educations
2018 (English)In: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer New York LLC , 2018, Vol. 537, p. 221-231Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Science is according to the Swedish legislation for higher education (Högskoleförordningen) a central quality aim for higher educations. In the Swedish Higher Education Authority’s (UKÄ) new quality assurance system, the integration of gender equality is one of several quality aspects that are being measured. This paper concerns a planned study with the aim to explore how feminist technoscience can contribute to challenging existing science practices, and a critical approach, while at the same time work as a theoretical resource for the integration of gender equality in Swedish higher IT educations. Feminist technoscience makes possible critical questions about scientific practices in both educational contexts and in work life, about researchers’ positioning, about consequences, and about power issues. Posing such questions is central in IT educations, since we live in a society in which digital technologies increasingly constitute preconditions for a working reality, and both reproduce existing structures and form new patterns. In this reality it is central to ask whether current science practices are enough, and how feminist technoscience can make a difference, in those educations that produce the IT experts of the tomorrow. The study will be conducted as a qualitative field study with a focus on how teachers and students in Swedish higher IT educations practice science and a critical approach, and feminist technoscience in their educations. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2018.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer New York LLC , 2018. Vol. 537, p. 221-231
Series
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, ISSN 1868-4238 ; 537
Keywords [en]
Critical approach, Feminist technoscience, Science practices, Swedish higher IT education, Quality assurance, Teaching, Digital technologies, Educational context, IT education, Qualitative field studies, Quality assurance systems, Climate change
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-17107DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99605-9_16Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85053933586ISBN: 9783319996042 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-17107DiVA, id: diva2:1255148
Conference
13th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC, Poznan
2018-10-112018-10-112018-10-12Bibliographically approved