Comments on: Focus on What Works, Not What Doesn’t

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By: Donna Milgram

Donna Milgram — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:57:49 +0000

Hi Jan
It’s so good to hear what you are up to in the UK – you are so ahead of us in so many ways, I’ve learned so much from your efforts! Future vs. Legacy – nice way to put it. And Science Sisters making bath bombs, how cool and fun is that!
Donna

By: Jan Peters

Jan Peters — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:48:09 +0000

Hi Donna

I loved to read your comments on ‘focus on the positive’ and what can be done! That’s just what we tried to do in the UK SET Fair report – to catalyse change and have a few specific recommendations and create a shift in effort. We have the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET now and that has done some of what was expected. Let’s hope the current funding crisis in the UK doesn’t undo the great work of the last 10 years!
I was involved in the Inter Academy Council report led by Anneke Levelt Sengers of the USA and again we focused on the future and not the legacy of the Academies. We are where we are and we cannot fix the past but we can influence the future! http://www.interacademycouncil.net/

On a personal level I have just finished preparing my ‘fizzy fun’ workshop for year 6 students, led by our project Science Sisters! So I have had a fun filled Friday with volcanoes, bath bombs and geysers. All in the name of challenging perceptions of science and scientists. Who says it can’t be fun! Happy Holiday!

By: Donna Milgram

Donna Milgram — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:10:05 +0000

I am glad to see there are supporters of Recruiting Women to STEM and diversity that also value appreciative inquiry – lets recruit more so the field reaches a tipping point!

By: Kathy Tarnai-Lokhorst

Kathy Tarnai-Lokhorst — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:10:55 +0000

The values of appreciative inquiry align with the values of most women in engineering. I have found that I am most comfortable and productive in this type of environment. If corporations and educational institutions focused on positive and constructive assessments, educational or business or personal, then retention of women would rise which in turn would increase recruitment.

By: David Gatewood

David Gatewood — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:01:32 +0000

Donna, I am a huge supporter of the positive focus your work and the work of IWITTS embraces, and agree that Appreciative Inquiry provides wonderful tools and resources based on a great theoretical framework. If readers are interested in learning more about AI, I highly recommend the resources available at David Cooperrider’s AI website: http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:20:15 +0000

The Research Institute for STEM Education (RISE) at the University of Oklahoma has used the paradigm of studying success to ground our research for over 8 years. It is indeed a change from how most diversity and equity research is conducted.