{"id":707,"date":"2017-01-24T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T09:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/?page_id=707"},"modified":"2017-01-24T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T09:47:42","slug":"gogirl-code-and-create","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/list-of-funded-projects\/gogirl-code-and-create\/","title":{"rendered":"GoGirl: Code and Create"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IT<\/a>Staff project based in the Department of Education<\/p>\n

Hilary round 2015<\/p>\n

See also go_girl Symposium<\/a> (blog post)<\/p>\n

For more information, see http:\/\/www.gogirloxford.org<\/a>
\nTwitter: @gogirlteam<\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teenage girls from disadvantaged socio\u2010economic backgrounds living in neighbouring towns around Oxford with a high percentage of social housing are a highly marginalised group. Many of these neighbourhoods show only low participation in higher education. Accordingly, young women from these neighbouring towns constitute a very small percentage of applicants to the University of Oxford \u2013 a position that needs to change.<\/p>\n

In line with Oxford\u2019s targets in its Access Agreement with the Office for Fair Access<\/u>, this interdisciplinary project will complement existing programmes aimed at widening access (for example: UNIQ and Learning<\/u> centre<\/u>), but tackle the problem in a fundamentally new way using technology. It will seek to help broaden the aspirations of teenage girls by engaging them in three inter-related ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. Exp<\/em><\/strong>loring history <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 through creatively exploring the experience of women at Oxford through the ages, the challenges they faced, and how they overcame them, the project seeks to encourage the teenage girls to make visible the struggle of minorities and their untold stories, and in the process to help them discover their own voices and aspirations.<\/li>\n
  2. M<\/em><\/strong>ed<\/em><\/strong>ia production <\/em><\/strong>-\u00ad\u2010 the girls will storyboard and video record a series of short vignettes on their mobile phones, in which the girls tell the women\u2019s stories. (For example, the story of Lady Kofoworola Abeni Ademola, who in 1935 became the first African woman to gain an Oxford degree, but had to overcome considerable struggles and social ostracism by her contemporaries.) Group work will focus on developing media production skills relating the history of these women and the barriers they overcame to the girls\u2019 own experiences.<\/li>\n
  3. D<\/em><\/strong>eveloping programming skills <\/em><\/strong>-\u00ad\u2010 Training the girls in using state\u2010of\u2010the\u2010art tools (e.g. http:\/\/www.phonegap.com<\/u>) \u00a0to\u00a0 \u00a0enable\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 them\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0to\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0develop\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mobile\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0applications\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0that present the experience of \u201cWomen at Oxford\u201d in an interactive and engaging form This will help raise awareness of the under-\u00ad\u2010representation of women in coding.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The project will draw on the expertise of an interdisciplinary team at the Department of Education with experience in new media engagement of young women from disadvantaged socio-\u00ad\u2010economic backgrounds, collaborative design, participatory action research, and the training in and development of coding skills.<\/p>\n

    The girls will work together in small groups to develop the content, story and architecture of the mobile application. The app will be made freely available for download with a launch at the Department of Education.<\/p>\n

    The project will result in the empowerment and capacity development of the girls involved, and the University will benefit from gaining new insight into the girls\u2019 perspectives of the University, in line with Oxford\u2019s Access Agreement target categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Staff project based in the Department of Education Hilary round 2015 See also go_girl Symposium (blog post) For more information, see http:\/\/www.gogirloxford.org Twitter: @gogirlteam ABSTRACT Teenage girls from disadvantaged socio\u2010economic backgrounds living in neighbouring towns around Oxford with a high … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":401,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions\/708"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}