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Direct linkArcher, Louise; Moote, Julie; MacLeod, Emily – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2020
Background: There is widespread agreement that participation in post-compulsory physics needs to be widened and increased, particularly among women and under-represented communities. This paper contributes to understanding of the processes that produce unequal participation, Methods: The paper undertakes a Bourdieusian analysis of longitudinal…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Foreign Countries, Advanced Courses
Archer, Louise – Primary Science, 2018
Over the past decade, the author and their colleagues have been carrying out research to try to better understand the factors that shape students' engagement with science, as well as their science and career aspirations. The ASPIRES/ASPIRES 2 studies have tracked a cohort of students in England from the age of 10 to 18, combining large-scale…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Carlone, Heidi B.; Webb, Angela W.; Archer, Louise; Taylor, Mandy – Science Education, 2015
The close association between science and masculinity has been widely discussed, yet few studies have focused on boys' negotiation with, and participation in, school science. This paper seeks to trouble monolithic notions of the link between science and masculinity, arguing that the "ideal science student" is a classed, racialized, and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Males, Human Body, Masculinity
Crozier, Gill; Burke, Penny Jane; Archer, Louise – Whiteness and Education, 2016
In spite of the relative success of the Widening Participation policy and strategies to increase the numbers of students from Black and Minority and White working-class backgrounds going to university, universities in Britain continue to be White and middle-class-dominated institutions. We found, in our two-year qualitative Higher Education…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Student Diversity, White Students, Middle Class
Archer, Louise; Francis, Becky; Mau, Ada – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Notions of culture, ethnicity and identity are highly political (and also personally meaningful) issues within diasporic communities. Complementary schools are particularly interesting sites in this respect, as they are often set up with an explicit cultural agenda of "preserving" or "maintaining" "traditional" culture and language within…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Student Attitudes, Identification (Psychology), Cultural Maintenance
Archer, Louise; Halsall, Anna; Hollingworth, Sumi – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
This paper discusses the ways in which inner-city, ethnically diverse, working-class girls' constructions of hetero-femininities mediate and shape their dis/engagement with education and schooling. Drawing on data from a study conducted with 89 urban, working-class young people in London, attention is drawn to three main ways through which young…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Sexuality, Play, Females
