Patriarchy Rules: Transforming resistance to gender inequalities in science teacher education in Zimbabwe
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper explores underlying mechanisms that constrain gender transformation in science education in Zimbabwe. Notwithstanding strides made with regards to gender equality in education, gender disparity is still visible mostly in natural science related disciplines. Focusing on a teacher education department, this paper argues that gender inequality is deeply imbued in the norms of the institution, patriarchy as a culture playing a decisive role in constraining the uptake of gender responsive curriculum practices. As recommendation we propose that curriculum re-orientation is not likely to be successful if it is done superficially without shaking the patriarchal roots that shape cultural values of practitioners. There is need to go beyond policy formulation to support reflexivity among teacher educators that will help them to scrutinize their values and practices as it relates to establishing gender responsive pedagogy in science education.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it