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Action Research Team Addresses the Dress Code
Action Research is a club offered in the Upper School by grade where students choose a topic that they believe affects the community, research its effect on the community, and propose solutions to how the problem might be solved. Students research and discuss this same topic through all four years of high school, building on their work from the previous years.
The team attends a convention held at the University of Pennsylvania to share their ideas with other Action Research teams across the nation at the end of each school year.
The 2021 Action Research “dress code” team has found this convention, along with the entire process of Action Research, to be very rewarding and an important part of their high school careers.
“I think that Action Research is very important because it takes social issues that apply to the world and try to address them in context of the Shipley community,” says Sutton Grossinger ‘21 an Action Research member. “Action Research gives students an opportunity to address problems they have found in the Shipley community. Many times we don’t have a way to voice our opinions or push for change. I think that Action Research has done a really good job taking input from the community and making a change,” adds Susanna Ulrich ‘21, another Action Research member.
The team’s topic is body image, and they are researching how societal expectations affect our body image, and at Shipley these societal expectations manifest themselves in the form of a dress code.
They are currently working on a questionnaire created from their research as a way to survey the Shipley community to see how the dress code specifically affects each individual.
While one of the research team’s goal is to take a look at the way the dress code affects a student’s body image, they do not only wish to make changes to the dress code but instead make changes to the community as a whole.
“The main change that I hope to make through Action Research is to promote body positivity. I hope that whatever changes we make allow Shipley students to feel more confident in their own skin,” comments Sutton Grossinger ‘21. “I think that what Action Research is doing right now is important because it not only addresses problems in the community that almost everyone, including students, teachers, and sometimes even parents can relate to, but it also allows people to talk about these problems and potentially fix them,” Action Research member Gianna Sciole ‘21 adds.
Wanting students to be aware of the goal of the team, the team is sending an upcoming questionnaire to the Upper School by looking into how this issue is currently being perpetuated.
If you are interested in this topic, feel free to reach out to Sutton, Susanna, Gianna or Brandon Jacobs, head of the class of 2021 Action Research team, to find out how you could help get involved.
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