“Brains before ‘beauty’?” High achieving girls, school and gender identities

Skelton, Christine; Francis, Becky; Read, Barbara

doi:10.1080/03055690903162366

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“…Yet, within political and mass media discourse, boys are described as more likely to play truant, as part of what has been named a "masculine non-study culture" (Björklund and Sabuni 2008-06-12 [Swedish Minister of Education; Swedish Minister of Gender equality]). The "panic over 'failing boys'" (Ringrose 2007, 474) stands in harsh contrast to what numerous studies have shown on the image of the 'good school girl': the performance of 'girlhood' or femininity is inseparably intertwined with the performance of a wellbehaved educational subjectivity (Skelton 2010;Skelton et al 2010;Walkerdine 1998;Walkerdine et al 2001). …”

Section: A Change Of Color? Gender As Produced and Activated Within Tmentioning

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Seeing red? The agency of computer software in the production and management of students’ school absences

Bodén

2013

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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Linnea Bodén is a Ph.D. student of Educational practice at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University. Her research focuses on school absenteeism and truancy and draws on a feminist relational materialist and posthumanist perspective, with a special interest in technical tools for the registration and control of absence. 2Seeing red? The agency of computer software in the production and management of students' school absences An increasing number of Swedish municipalities use digital software to manage the registration of students' school absences. The software is regarded as a problem-solving tool to make registration more efficient, but its effects on the educational setting have been largely neglected. Focusing on an event with two students from a class of eleven-year olds, the aim of the paper is to explore schools' common uses of computer software for registering absence in order to understand how materialities -like the software -are entangled with the production of school absence. In the paper, the Deleuzio-Guattarian concept of the assemblage is put to work within a feminist relational materialist framework.This enables an understanding of the complexity of school absence, where materialities of the educational setting are theorized as entangled with social and gendered discursive components.

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Section: A Change Of Color? Gender As Produced and Activated Within Tmentioning

confidence: 95%

Seeing red? The agency of computer software in the production and management of students’ school absences

Bodén

2013

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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“…De skal vaere både skarpe og smukke (bright and beautiful), altså både excellere i skolen og klare sig godt som piger i mere traditionel stereotypifi ceret forstand (Renold & Allan, 2006;Pomerantz & Raby, 2011). Ifølge en undersøgelse af Skelton et al (2010) harmonerer det dog sjaeldent, når piger på den ene side ønsker at vaere socialt accepterede ud fra traditionelle feminine vaerdier og på den anden side straeber efter intellektuel succes. Ofte resulterer denne ambivalens i, at pigerne forsøger at tilpasse sig konventionel femininitet eller strategisk nedtoner deres intelligens, hvilket kan skyldes, at der i nogle miljøer ses ned på piger, der praesterer perfekt i skolen (Pomerantz & Raby, 2015).…”

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12-talspigerne i medierne: Rammesætning og stereotypificering af højtpræsterende piger og kvinder i det danske uddannelsessystem [Straight-A girls in the media: The framing and stereotypification of high performance girls and women in the Danish system of education]

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Blom

2017

MedieKultur

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“…Her performance experience outside school meant she felt she was more mature and worldly than many of her peers, and her narrative was confident and articulate. This had the initial effect of hiding the considerable effort that must have gone into the work of 'being Sophie' (Kenway et al, 2015;Skelton et al, 2010).…”

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Researching elite education: affectively inferred belongings, desires and exclusions

Maxwell

Aggleton

2015

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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This paper reflects on key moments occurring during the course of a three-year study of elite girls' education, with a focus on the power relations between researchers and elites within the context in which the study was conducted. Central to our analysis is a focus on the affective dimensions of interaction between the researcher and study participants. Our experience gaining access to the schools in the study illustrates how productive relationships may be fostered by a demonstrated alignment of interests, the desire for intellectual dialogue, and factors linked to the dynamics of the local education market. In our work with elite young women, we found that experiences of affinity, foreignness or awe within the interview process triggered different systems of affect. These moments are significant in shaping understandings about the social projects being pursued by elite subjects.

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“Brains before ‘beauty’?” High achieving girls, school and gender identities

Cited by 54 publications

References 21 publications

Seeing red? The agency of computer software in the production and management of students’ school absences

Seeing red? The agency of computer software in the production and management of students’ school absences

12-talspigerne i medierne: Rammesætning og stereotypificering af højtpræsterende piger og kvinder i det danske uddannelsessystem [Straight-A girls in the media: The framing and stereotypification of high performance girls and women in the Danish system of education]

Researching elite education: affectively inferred belongings, desires and exclusions

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