Feminist Methodologies

Deitch, Cynthia

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“…Feminist studies are committed to marginality and power differentials, seeking justice for people, communities, and organisations often outside the dominant paradigms (Davis & Craven, 2016). Knowledge production is socially situated, and reflexivity includes the researcher's positionality about the people and topic studied (Deitch, 2020). Following feminist writing, this paper recognises the significance of reflexivity (Harding, 2007).…”

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The Power of Knowledge in Combat Sports Coaching

Erdogan

2024

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A growing number of studies develop recommendations for improving the expertise of coaching better athletes. Scholars build knowledge of how to coach and what competence a sports coach should have. Following feminist ideology in knowledge production, this paper explores who can decide on approved coaching know-how. It investigates the assumed expertise and the identification of competition-level coaches' competence and asks what capability is required to qualify as a sports coach. It scrutinises existing practices and collectively formed concepts that influence coaches’ pathways: how to become a coach and what possibilities are there for different positions as a coach. The study is conducted at the sports club level, where coaches are voluntary workers. The research includes judo, boxing, and wrestling, referred to as combat sports. Through feminist studies and analysis, the research examines power structures between people or groups. The study focuses on how practical, procedural knowledge is valued in the culture of combat sports. By describing culturally shared meanings and practices in sports, the study reveals the gendered practices by which situations are planned, implemented, and managed. The analysis shows how the male-dominated coaching environment relies on tacit knowledge of learning, cultural behaviour, and assumed know-how. The implied procedural knowledge is proven performatively in physical manners learned through experience, especially expertise from winning competitions. As a result, the study highlights the unchangeable, traditional environment, where repetition of current knowledge is indispensable. Consequently, the study suggests that coaches without previous sport-specific knowledge are excluded from coaching.

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The Power of Knowledge in Combat Sports Coaching

Erdogan

2024

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Differences in Mathematical and Verbal Achievement Between Girls and Boys: The Heuristic Potential of the Structural Typing Approach in Large‐Scale Studies

Merkys,

Vaitkevičius,

Bubeliene

et al. 2024

Euro J of Education

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The results of total testing from the years 2015–2022 on the mathematical and verbal achievement of Lithuanian pupils (N ≈ 250,000) are presented. These are the standardised tests from grades 4 to 12. The K‐Means method has discovered six types of achievement. The highest achievement type is dominated by girls (61.1%) who perform well on both mathematical and verbal tasks. The lowest achievement type is dominated by boys (57.4%) who solve both mathematical and verbal tasks extremely poorly. Each of these types makes up 1/5 of the population, and the gap between the means of their groups is about 2.5 standard deviations. The remaining four types of achievement are in the 20th to 80th percentile and make up about 60% of the population. Differences in means within the same type between mathematic and verbal achievement average 0.85 standard deviations or span one quartile. Gender differences are clearly visible in this subgroup: boys solve mathematical tasks better and verbal tasks worse; girls solve verbal tasks better and mathematical tasks worse. Big data may form a mixed distribution. It is appropriate to first discover the basic types of achievement and only then look for gender‐specific differences. Such a type‐building approach is heuristically superior to the conventional approach of working only with the mixed dataset.

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The Archival Phase in Feminist Organizations: Methodological Suggestions

Eyal,

Aharoni,

Preser

2024

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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The article is based on a series of interviews (61) and a multi-sited ethnography conducted during 2019–2021 which traced archival records of 20 feminist organizations in Israel: local women’s peace organizations (FPAs) and Rape Crisis Centres (RCCs). We describe the study and the complex methodological concerns and meta-questions relating to the study of feminist community archives in relation to content (types of testimonials or records), method of organization (archival practices like cataloging or digitization) and activists’ perspectives concerning future preservation and access. In order to overcome these challenges, we suggest six methodological principles which may apply to the study of civil society organizations that were established between the 1970s–1990s: the importance of identifying researchers’ positionality vis a-vis the archive; the politics of knowledge and intersectional identities; avoiding judgment of informal archival practices; identifying who sets the rules; silence and self-silencing; and recognition of invisible labor.

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Feminist Methodologies

Cited by 3 publications

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The Power of Knowledge in Combat Sports Coaching

The Power of Knowledge in Combat Sports Coaching

Differences in Mathematical and Verbal Achievement Between Girls and Boys: The Heuristic Potential of the Structural Typing Approach in Large‐Scale Studies

The Archival Phase in Feminist Organizations: Methodological Suggestions

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