Andreas Ottemo
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View article: Reflections on the 2024 ESJP review process: Andreas
Reflections on the 2024 ESJP review process: Andreas Open
‘For me, formulating a paper is always personal and sending it in for review always entails a sense of vulnerability. In a sense, I consider it to “expose” myself. Particularly in relation to the work I’ve been doing lately, where I find i…
View article: What genders STEM subjects?
What genders STEM subjects? Open
STEM education research has repeatedly demonstrated how the STEM field is gendered masculine. But what does this mean? Is there anything about STEM subjects as such, that warrants labelling them masculine? This paper explores these questio…
View article: How colour evasiveness reproduces whiteness in Swedish universities
How colour evasiveness reproduces whiteness in Swedish universities Open
We analyse how the whiteness of science and technology in Swedish universities is reproduced using four interviews with undergraduates involved in groups that work on making their courses more inclusive. Combining discourse analysis with a…
View article: Geek nostalgia: The reflective and restorative defence of white male geek culture
Geek nostalgia: The reflective and restorative defence of white male geek culture Open
During recent decades, geek culture has become increasingly visible, and the geek has left the cultural margins, becoming more popular than ever. At the same time, nostalgia has emerged as a central component of geek culture. Framed by a p…
View article: Gender, Passion, and ‘Sticky’ Technology in a Voluntaristically-Organized Technology Makerspace
Gender, Passion, and ‘Sticky’ Technology in a Voluntaristically-Organized Technology Makerspace Open
As 'open' and supposedly inclusive informal learning settings that participants visit out of interest and passion, there has been hope that makerspaces will democratize technology and challenge traditional gender patterns in engineering ed…
View article: Struggling to teach “those who struggle”. The education of newly arrived students with limited schooling in two Swedish compulsory schools
Struggling to teach “those who struggle”. The education of newly arrived students with limited schooling in two Swedish compulsory schools Open
This study examines the teaching of a student group that is often overlooked in research and policy: newly arrived adolescent students with limited previous experience of formal schooling (NALS). Drawing on ethnographic data produced at tw…
View article: (Dis)embodied masculinity and the meaning of (non)style in physics and computer engineering education
(Dis)embodied masculinity and the meaning of (non)style in physics and computer engineering education Open
Physics- and computer-related disciplines are strongly male dominated in Western higher education. Feminist research has demonstrated how this can be understood as reflecting a strong privileging of mind and rationality (over body/nature/e…
View article: Contextualizing technology: Between gender pluralization and class reproduction
Contextualizing technology: Between gender pluralization and class reproduction Open
A diverse body of feminist scholarship has addressed the masculine orientation of Western engineering education for at least four decades. Among critiques specifically targeting curriculum, a recurrent line of argumentation highlights its …