Ghostly Mirroring: How Taxidermy Could Teach us Something Important About Current Attempts to Inspire STEM Aspirations in Young Women

Sandager, Jette; Pors, Justine Grønbæk

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-5831-0_9

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“…Children are seen here as diverse not simply in terms of their levels, skills, interests or class background, but as diverse in their affective economy. The different elements represent imaginations of different basic drivers for the children's engagement (Pors and Sandager, 2022). The robot competition is believed to attract certain boys who are not interested in project work; and singing and dancing events are believed to attract other children who are turned off by robots and competition.…”

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Potentialising the potential: Dream of everything you can become, and become everything you dream of

Andersen

Knudsen

Sandager

2023

European Educational Research Journal

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In education, the child is often observed as a potential to be shaped and realised. In this article, we analyse the educational program, First Lego League. Surprisingly, its aim is not simply to realise a potential, but to potentialise the child to become unlimited potential. Children should become ‘a force for change’, and they are told that ‘you can be anything, just do it!’. To implement this program, First Lego League develops a transition medium that consists of non-representative, presentational symbols such as play, fun, innovation, dance and discovery. Such a program does not come without costs. Our analysis reveals how negativity is negated, knowledge is devalued and the children’s selfnarratives are decoupled. This could result in children being confronted with paradoxical demands, which are difficult to navigate. Analytically, the article draws on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and in particular his concepts of form and medium.

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Potentialising the potential: Dream of everything you can become, and become everything you dream of

Andersen

Knudsen

Sandager

2023

European Educational Research Journal

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“…To consider the taxidermied animal body is, within the museum context, to consider the legacies of colonial worldviews, fabricated notions of species hierarchy, the fetishization of nature, and contemporary anxieties about the environment and climate (Poliquin, 2008;Poliquin, 2012;Sutton, 2020;Sandager & Pors, 2021;Wade, 2022). In an age before the development of wildlife photography and documentary filmmaking, the display of physical animal bodies and mounted skins was the primary technology by which animal life was made visible, and the museum institution was the primary venue for the public to learn about the animal world.…”

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Animal Bodies in the Museum: Acts of Artmaking, Collective Knowledge, and Complex Conversation Around Museum Taxidermy

Gallais

2022

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The purpose of this paper is to explore how critical acts of making during a participatory museum workshop and subsequent studio-based research-creation can inspire poly-vocal discourses around museum taxidermy as repositories of complex histories. Centred on four animals on display at the Redpath Museum, this program of research sough to reanimate these animals and reposition their context within the museum space and wider world beyond. Through collaborative exploration and creative acts of making, art educators can engage and shape the discourse around taxidermied animal bodies, giving them new life as tools for teaching and learning in museum spaces.

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The sensuous governmentality of glitter: Educating managing women scientists with gleaming STEM Barbies

Sandager

2024

Management Learning

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This essay conceptualizes glitter as a sensuous materialization of governmentality. It does so, arguing that glitter governs in alluring ways by materializing light and sight. As such, the essay explores glitter as a sparkly substance, governing individuals in certain behavioural directions, which it also demonstrates in the illustrative case of a small group of gleaming STEM Barbies, intended to govern young girls in the direction of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics management careers, through sensuous stimulations of sight. However, in materializing light and sight, glitter leaves everything un-glittery in gloomy darkness, while governing with glitter also comes with the danger of producing an unfortunate ignorant blindness, potentially countering the aims behind the use of glitter as a governing means.

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Ghostly Mirroring: How Taxidermy Could Teach us Something Important About Current Attempts to Inspire STEM Aspirations in Young Women

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Potentialising the potential: Dream of everything you can become, and become everything you dream of

Potentialising the potential: Dream of everything you can become, and become everything you dream of

Animal Bodies in the Museum: Acts of Artmaking, Collective Knowledge, and Complex Conversation Around Museum Taxidermy

The sensuous governmentality of glitter: Educating managing women scientists with gleaming STEM Barbies

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