Women’s experiences from participating in all female arctic adventures

Masteroppgave - Norges idrettshøgskole, 2016Current understanding of the way in which females adventure and organise expeditions is widely unknown. This thesis explores the female concept of adventure with the intention to broaden the knowledge and awareness of women’s experiences in the Arctic. It is centred around the experiences of contemporary female adventurers who have completed self organised expeditions in the Arctic in all female teams. It specifically questions why these women chose the Arctic for their expeditions and what their definition of adventure is. Furthermore this study explores why women choose to journey in single gender groups and any significant meanings that they may draw from their experiences. It investigates any relationships these women may form while on an expedition specifically their connection to nature, how they function as a female only group in leadership and decision and how they gain sponsorship, grants and deal with social media. The purpose of this study is to develop a current understanding of the way in which females’ adventure unravelling any components of adventure expeditions that may hinder or add to their involvement in the outdoors. This study was conducted within a feminist phenomenological framework which allowed a critical and reflective analysis of the women’s experiences to transpire. In correlation with the values of feminist research this paper strives to challenge the gender inequality that is rife within the adventure community. In-depth interviews were held with six women, these informants were chosen for their commitment to adventure and for fitting the selection criteria of having completed a self organised all female expedition within the Arctic. Three of the women are well-known internationally for their competitive contribution to ski sport and the other three interviewees are well known locally. A much richer interpretation of these women was gathered by intertwining the worlds of both women with a media profile and those without. All of the women are privileged in the sense that they are from western world nations and have the opportunity to adventure, which represents a weakness within this study.Seksjon for kroppsøving og pedagogikk / Department of Physical Educatio

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Unmet goals of tracking: within-track heterogeneity of students' expectations for

Educational systems are often characterized by some form(s) of ability grouping, like tracking. Although substantial variation in the implementation of these practices exists, it is always the aim to improve teaching efficiency by creating homogeneous groups of students in terms of capabilities and performances as well as expected pathways. If students’ expected pathways (university, graduate school, or working) are in line with the goals of tracking, one might presume that these expectations are rather homogeneous within tracks and heterogeneous between tracks. In Flanders (the northern region of Belgium), the educational system consists of four tracks. Many students start out in the most prestigious, academic track. If they fail to gain the necessary credentials, they move to the less esteemed technical and vocational tracks. Therefore, the educational system has been called a 'cascade system'. We presume that this cascade system creates homogeneous expectations in the academic track, though heterogeneous expectations in the technical and vocational tracks. We use data from the International Study of City Youth (ISCY), gathered during the 2013-2014 school year from 2354 pupils of the tenth grade across 30 secondary schools in the city of Ghent, Flanders. Preliminary results suggest that the technical and vocational tracks show more heterogeneity in student’s expectations than the academic track. If tracking does not fulfill the desired goals in some tracks, tracking practices should be questioned as tracking occurs along social and ethnic lines, causing social inequality

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