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. POSSESSED Peering through a mirrored door The judge on the other side Given only six months or a year With no place left to hide Dedicated to Miss Helen Kime of Fredricktown, OH. A tough little old lady, she lived stubbornly alone in her Civil War era shotgun shack (with a garden) refusing even a telephone. As such, all visits had to be arranged in writing and I only saw her two or three times before her death in late 1983 at about age 90. 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