Understanding Student Participation and Choice in Science and Technology Education

Chapter 1 Introduction: Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education: Presenting the Challenge and Introducing Project IRIS

Chapter 2 Expectancy-Value Perspectives on Choice of Science and Technology Education in Late-Modern Societies

Chapter 3 A Narrative Approach to Understand Students’ Identities and Choices

Chapter 4 Gender, STEM Studies and Educational Choices. Insights from Feminist Perspectives

Chapter 5 Attitudes, Interest and Factors Influencing STEM Enrolment Behaviour: An Overview of Relevant Literature

Chapter 6 Science Aspirations and Gender Identity: Lessons from the ASPIRES Project

Chapter 7 The Impact of Science Curriculum Content on Students’ Subject Choices in Post-compulsory Schooling

Chapter 8 A Place for STEM: Probing the Reasons for Undergraduate Course Choices

Chapter 9 Short Stories of Educational Choice: In the Words of Science and Technology Students

Chapter 10 Understanding Student Participation and Choice in Science and Technology Education

Chapter 11 Choice Patterns of PhD Students: Why Should I Pursue a PhD?

Chapter 12 The Impact of Outreach and Out-of-School Activities on Norwegian Upper Secondary Students’ STEM Motivations

Chapter 13 Why Do Students in STEM Higher Education Programmes Drop/Opt Out? – Explanations Offered from Research

Chapter 14 What Makes Them Leave and Where Do They Go? Non-completion and Institutional Departures in STEM

Chapter 15 The First-Year Experience: Students’ Encounter with Science and Engineering Programmes

Chapter 16 Keeping Pace: Educational Choice Motivations and First-Year Experiences in the Words of Italian Students

Chapter 17 When Research Challenges Gender Stereotypes: Exploring Narratives of Girls’ Educational Choices

Chapter 18 Italian Female and Male Students’ Choices: STEM Studies and Motivations

Chapter 19 Being a Woman in a Man’s Place or Being a Man in a Woman’s Place: Insights into Students’ Experiences of Science and Engineering at University

Chapter 20 Italian Students’ Ideas About Gender and Science in Late-Modern Societies: Interpretations from a Feminist Perspective

Chapter 22 Improving Participation in Science and Technology Higher Education: Ways Forward