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¨Fordi jeg har lyst til å være flink¨ En kvalitativ undersøkelse av identitetsprosesser knyttet til unge jenters valg av karriererettede studier
2015
Masteroppgave pedagogikk- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 Stadig flere jenter søker seg til karriererettede utdanninger. Mye tyder på at kvinner har begynt å ta igjen mennene når det gjelder ambisjoner med tanke på lønn og posisjoner i arbeidslivet, som da gjør at unge jenter gjør seg mer og mer gjeldene i de høyere utdanningene (Bergersen, 2011). Hva er det som driver disse jentene inn i slike karriererettede studier, og hvorfor er høy lønn og status i arbeidslivet og livet generelt blitt så viktig? Med utgangspunkt i dette vil denne studien prøve å skape en større forståelse rundt hvilke identitetsprosesser som kan knyttes til unge jenters valg av karriererettede studier. Studien har en kvali…
"Hva mener dere med likestilling, da?" : overføring av kunnskap om likestilling mellom kjønn i spenningsfeltet mellom ord og handling
2013
Published version of a chapter in the book: Likestilling 2013 : kunnskap og innovasjon på Agder, redigert av Hanne Stousland og Hilde Witsø. Dette kapitlet er et bidrag i debatten om hvordan lærerutdanningsinstitusjoner kan tilrettelegge for opplæring i likestillingsspørsmål. Vi har gjennom et prosjekt fulgt tre studenter som har prøvd ut de likestillingsverktøyene som er utarbeidet av Fritt valg i ungdomsskolen. En modell for taus kunnskap er brukt for å analysere resultatene fra undersøkelsen, og det er funnene fra denne analysen som presenteres her. Det ene funnet er at Fritt valgs likestillingsverktøy er gode metodiske hjelpemidler til å bringe tema om likestilling på banen i skolen. De…
The Importance of Friendship in the Construction of Positive Nations
2013
This chapter is written by two Argentineans, Graciela Tonon and Lia Rodriguez de la Vega, and brings interesting data from their own studies regarding friendship as relational glue for a positive nation. Departing from the results gathered, where friendship emerged as the variable ranked with the highest value for the people interviewed, they define the concept and its typologies and connect it with the idea of a positive nation, with Martin Seligman’s flourishing model, and, finally, with Aristotle’s idea of friendship as community. Alongside the chapter, we can understand, through the testimonies and words of the interviewed, the dynamic perspectives regarding friendship as an instrument …
De ungas uppfattningar om krig och fred
1985
Wahlstrom, R.: Youngsters' views on questions concerning war and peace. Nordisk Psykologi, 1985, 37 (4), 298–309. The paper is based on a study of 375 Finnish youngsters' views on questions concerning war and peace. These attitudes are examined in relation to the self-concept and moral development. The results show that girls apparently value peace more than boys do, that girls also participate in peace saving activities more than boys. For both sexes, moral development correlates with a positive attitude towards peace: he higher the moral stage, the more favourable the attitudes. A correlation between a strong self-concept and a favourable attitude towards peace was found only for the girl…
Typology of career development for Arab women managers in the United Arab Emirates
2010
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore how women managers in the United Arab Emirates account for and construct their career development.Design/methodology/approachA narrative approach is adopted for analyzing in‐depth interviews with 15 women managers in the United Arab Emirates.FindingsThe study produced a typology distinguishing four types of career development among women managers in the United Arab Emirates: progressive, moderate, facilitated and idealistic. The results suggest that social status and family connections can play a significant role in women's career development.Originality/valueThe value of this paper is two‐fold. First, it contributes to the previously under‐res…
Arab women managers and identity formation through clothing
2009
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how Arab women managers construct their social identities through the meanings they ascribe to their clothing while pursuing managerial careers.Design/methodology/approachAn interview‐based qualitative approach is adopted for describing the meanings that the United Arab Emirates national women managers give to their clothing.FindingsThis paper identifies multiple coexisting identities in Arab women pursuing managerial careers. While the contradiction is found in the identity as a woman and as a manager, the normative dimensions of identity formation such as being a Muslim and an Emirati serve as enhancing for women's gendered managerial identit…
Reconstructing social spaces: The rhetoric of the public/ private split
1996
Abstract The article deals with the public/private distinction as a hidden spatialization that regulates the social. It looks at restructurations of the distinction; at changes and their political consequences in terms of ongoing rhetorical boundary work. The naming or coding of something as public or private is in itself a cultured process. The distinction is used in various meanings and within multiple discursive repertoires. What is named as public or private also varies in time and in space. Although variable and contextual, the coding always carries social value; it structures the societal positions of people. Furthermore, the coding also carries meanings that are not translatable. “Th…
Regional gender inequality in the Norwegian culture of equality
2014
Published version of an article in the journal: Gender Issues. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12147-014-9131-0 This research project has its origin in statistical findings indicating that there has been a long-standing regional variation in the attainment of gender equality in Norway whereby the southern region has been identified as the least gender-equal. This is likely to be caused by an interaction of economic, political and cultural structures. Nevertheless, the understanding of this phenomenon remains incomplete since the cultural dimension too often ends up as a residual category or a dependent variable. The project seeks to explore the cultural dime…
L'irruzione del corpo femminile sulla scena sacrificale. Tra sessualità esibita e sessualità interiorizzata
2021
A study of women's roles and performances in Vedic rites
Now you see me, now you don’t: applying automated content analysis to track migrant women’s salience in German news
2020
Reading media headlines and articles about migration, one quickly gets the impression that the media discourse is focussed on migrant men. To investigate to what extend this perception actually hol...