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This chapter presents the results from a high-school competition fostering students’ critical reflections on women’s roles in science. The competition was organized in the framework of the GENERA European project and the first “Gender in Physics” day of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). One hundred twenty Italian high schools and more than 830 students produced tales, reports and videos about gender equality in scientific careers and women’s roles in the physics disciplines. An ex-post questionnaire explored how participating students perceive the “women-science” association. This chapter presents students’ views on gender equality in science along with an analytical tool developed to explore learner-generated contents. It proposes a tool for analyzing students’ products, in collaboration with school teachers, to raise awareness and sensitize students regarding Responsible Research and Innovation topics.
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Di Tullio, I., Pisacane, L. (2021). Women and Science: Outlook from an Italian School Competition. In: Sandu, P., Tudisca, V., Valente, A. (eds) Co-creating in Schools Through Art and Science. SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72690-4_6
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