Understanding Student Participation and Choice in Science and Technology Education [electronic resource] / edited by Ellen Karoline Henriksen, Justin Dillon, Jim Ryder.

Introduction: Participation in science and technology education - presenting the challenge and introducing project IRIS -- Section 1:Theoretical perspectives on educational choice -- Chapter 1: Expectancy-value perspectives on STEM choice in late-modern societies -- Chapter 2. A narrative approach to understand students' identities and choices -- Chapter 3: Gender, STEM studies and educational choices. Insights from feminist perspectives -- Section 2: Interest and participation in STEM from primary school to phD -- Chapter 4: STEM attitudes, interests and career choice -- Chapter 5: Science aspirations and gender identity: Lessons from the ASPIRES project -- Chapter 6: The impact of science curriculum content on students' subject choices in post-compulsory schooling -- Chapter 7: A place for STEM: Probing the reasons for undergraduate course choices -- Chapter 8: Short stories of educational choice - in the words of science and technology students -- Chapter 9: Understanding declining science participation in Australia: A systemic perspective -- Chapter 10: Choice patterns of PhD students: why should i pursue a PhD? -- Chapter 11: The impact of outreach and out-of-school activities on Norwegian upper secondary students' STEM motivations -- Section 3: Staying in STEM, leaving STEM? -- Chapter 12: Why do students in stem higher education programmes drop/opt out? Explanations offered from research -- Chapter 13: What makes them leave and where do they go? Non-completion and institutional departures in STEM -- Chapter 14: The first-year experience: Students' encounter with science and engineering programmes -- Chapter 15: Keeping pace. Educational choice motivations and first-year experiences in the words of Italian students -- Section 4: Applying feminist perspectives to understand STEM participation -- Chapter 16: When research challenges gender stereotypes: Exploring narratives of girls' educational choices -- Chapter 17: Italian female and male students' choices: STEM studies and motivations -- Chapter 18: Being a woman in a man's place or being a man in a women's place: insights into students' experiences of science and engineering at university -- Chapter 19: Italian students' ideas about gender and science in late modern societies. interpretations from a feminist perspective -- Section 5: Understanding and improving STEM participation: Conclusions and recommendations -- Chapter 20: Understanding student participation and choice in science and technology education: The contribution of IRIS -- Chapter 21: Improving participation in science and technology higher education: Ways forward -- Appendix: The IRIS questionnaire: Brief account of instrument development, data collection and respondents.