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- Title
Are STEM Syllabi Gendered? A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis.
- Authors
Parson, Laura
- Abstract
This study explored the gendered nature of STEM higher education institution through a feminist critical discourse analysis of STEM course syllabi from a Midwest research university. I explored STEM syllabi to understand how linguistic features such as stance and interdiscursivity are used in the syllabus and how language and discourses used in the syllabus replicate the masculine nature of STEM education. Findings suggest that the discourses identified in the syllabi reinforce traditional STEM academic roles, and that power and gender in the STEM syllabi are revealed through exploration of the themes of knowledge, learning, and the teaching and learning environment created by the language used in the syllabus. These findings inform and extend understanding of the STEM syllabus and the STEM higher education institution and lead to recommendations about how to make the STEM syllabus more inclusive for women.
- Subjects
CRITICAL discourse analysis; FEMINISM; POSTSTRUCTURALISM; OUTLINES; STEM education
- Publication
Qualitative Report, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 1, p102
- ISSN
1052-0147
- Publication type
Article