UNIVERSITY
Speaker urges feminist research
By Cathy Peterson
Emeiaid Repoiter
By taking a women's .stand
point, social science research
ers can maximize objectivity, a
prominent author and philoso
phy professor told a Fir Room
audience Thursday.
Sandra Harding, author of
Thu Science Question in Femi
nism, said there are distinct
features of women's position in
a society stratified by gender
that are being used by feminist
researchers, but not by conven
tional researchers.
"Women are at this point,
new kinds of people in histo
ry." Harding said.
She added social values and
political agendas might come
with the tag of "feminist" re
searcher. but that these added
perspectives produce "empiri
cally and theoretically prefer
able results of research
"Objectivity means moving
outside science and into poli
tics." Harding said.
"The issue is neither biology
or intuition," she said.
"Knowledge is socially locat
ed.” Women are located in an
advantageous position in socie
ty to provide valuable resources
for research because of several
factors. Harding said.
Sandra Harding
"Women's different lives
have been erroneously de
valued and neglected as start
ing points for scientific, re
search and as the generators of
evidence for or against knowl
edge claims," she said. For too
long, women and men have
been valued in homogenous
ways, whereas women are as
signed different kinds of activi
ties in life, activities worthy of
study.
However. Harding warned,
feminist researchers should be
careful to recognize the many
different women's lives, and
not take an "essentialist" • ont'
woman’s life apprise h
"Feminist thought is spoken
by all different kinds of worn
on.” she said.
In addition, women are out
siders to the so* ial order. Har
ding said, and able to see pat
terns in a culture that those im
mersed in the culture cannot
detect.
Because women have been
oppressed, they have less inter
est in maintaining the status
quo. and or remaining ignorant
of their oppression "They
have less to lose bv by distanc
ing themselves from the so< ial
order." she said
Traditional researchers have
drawn from a history of the
winner of the iwttle of the sex
es, usually the men, as opposed
to "the other side." Harding
said. Women have a tradition
of activism in the battle, and
their activism helps to reveal
the real social order, she add
ed
Harding stressed she was not
referring to biological differ
ences between men and women
in any of her accounts, and that
the reasons for turning to wom
en’s thought as a starting place
for knowledge were not com
peting
Administrators need hi-tech teaching
By Peter Cogswell
Emeiaid Associate Editor
Educators in the University's
school of education have decid
ed to review and update the
school's program fur educating
public school administrators.
The review of the program is
a major look at how well it pre
pares students for administra
tive positions in public
schools, said Robert (iilberts.
dean of education.
Gilberts said the review will
look at what new expectations
parents and students will have
for administrators in the future
as well as what new challenges
administrators will have to
face.
"Different demands are go
ing to t>e made on administra
tors (in the future), and this re
quires a careful look at what we
are going to Ik* doing." he said
Part of the review process in
cludes having a panel of 32 ed
ucators from throughout the
state look over the program and
make recommendations on how
to strengthen and update it.
The panel review is being
headed by David Conley of the
college's Division of Education
al Policy and Management.
The panel will be comprised
of teachers, administrators and
higher education officials and
will represent a cross section of
education throughout the state.
Conley said.
Conley believes there are
three changing trends that mer
it the updating of the program.
These changes are happening
in economics. siK:ial and politi
cal values and technology, he
said.
"The way we do business
has changed fundamentally.”
Conley said of economics. "We
used to operate on a factory
model. Now we operate on a
team model of problem solv
ing."
Because of this change, a
team model of problem solving
must be incorporated into pub
lic schools as well, Conley
said.
"Administrators from this
school need to be able to work
in teams," he added.
Concerning social and politi
cal changes, Conley said in the
future it is clear people want to
be more involved with the in
stitutions their children will l>e
attending
Future administrators will
need to be more involved with
the community rather than just
dictating to it, Conley said
Technologically, administra
tors have the opportunity to de
centralize education This will
also change the role of schools
in the future. Conley said
Technological advances will
cause education to have more
of a partnership with business
es. This necessitates that ad
ministrators make sure they
know how to I letter use tech
nology. Conley said.
“Administrators need to
huild these partnerships," he
said.
Conley said he hopes to he
able to impIeinent some
changes in the program soon in
order to help people that are
currently enrolled in the pro
gram become both more knowl
edgable and marketable.
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