Boys and achievement
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- Created on: 27-12-18 14:43
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- Boys and achievement
- Literacy
- Boys
- Football
- Girls
- Bedroom culture
- Reading seen as a feminine activity
- Policies to raise boys achievement
- Reading Champions
- DCSG - Gender gap due to poor literacy skills
- Boys
- Decline of traditional men jobs
- Outsourcing of manufacturing to Asia
- Mitsos and Browne
- Crisis of masculinity
- Little prospect of getting a proper job
- Give up trying to get qualifications
- Qualificationsaren't need for these jobs anyway
- Crisis of masculinity
- Feminisation of education
- Sewell - coursework is the cause of the gender gap
- Coursework should be replaced with single exams
- Schools celebrate feminine traits and not masculine ones
- Shortage of male teachers
- DFEs - 16% of male primary school teachers
- Female teachers are unable to control boys behaviour
- Male teachers need to impose strict discipline on boys
- Read - Female teachers can use discourse to discipline
- Laddish subcultures
- Epstein - w/c boys called sissies if they appear to be 'swots'
- Masculinity = tough manual work
- Francis - Non feminine construct
- Moral panic about boys
- Ringrose - fear that w/c boys will group up to be dangerous
- Pre-occupied with raising boys achievements
- Osler - neglect of girls
- Ignores w/c and ethnic minorities
- Gender, class and ethnicity
- Both sexes have improved
- McVeigh - Similarities are greater than differences
- Gender gap amongst black Caribbean pupils is greater than other ethnicities
- Literacy
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