Feminist Technoscience as a Resource for Working with Science Practices: a Critical Approach, and Gender Equality in Swedish Higher IT Educations
2018 (English)In: This Changes Everything - ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?: HCC13 2018 / [ed] David Kreps, Charles Ess, Louise Leenen, Kai Kimppa, Springer, 2018, 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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2018. p. 221-231
Series
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, ISSN 1868-4238 ; 537
Keywords [en]
Science practices, Critical approach, Swedish Higher IT education, Feminist technoscience
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects Gender Studies Other Engineering and Technologies
Research subject
Computer Science, Information and software visualization
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-78007DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99605-9_16Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85053933586ISBN: 978-3-319-99604-2 (print)ISBN: 978-3-319-99605-9 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-78007DiVA, id: diva2:1250914
Conference
13th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC13 2018 Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Polen, September 19-21, 2018
2018-09-252018-09-252025-02-18Bibliographically approved