Differential achievement : Gender
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- Created on: 17-05-14 14:37
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- Differential achievement: Gender
- Reasons for improved girls achievement
- 3) Policies helping girls
- The NATIONAL CURRICULUM; everyone has to do the same subjects regardless of gender.
- 2) Changes in the expectation of girls
- SUE SHARPE; study of girls in the 70's and then girls in the 90's.
- See their own mum's working providing them with a role model
- SUE SHARPE; study of girls in the 70's and then girls in the 90's.
- 4) Pro school subculture
- Girls work harder, do more homework and meet deadlines.
- MITOS & BROWNE: girls are more mature at 16 than boys are therefore taking GCSE's more seriously
- Girls work harder, do more homework and meet deadlines.
- 1) Changes in the Labour market
- Service sector jobs have increased. Women are given opportunity to seek work.
- 3) Policies helping girls
- Reason for underachievement in boys
- 3) Changes in the Labour market
- Decline in manual work, boys are losing motivation.
- 2) "Laddish" behaviour
- Develop an anti-school subculture. MAC & GHAILL; "this is girls work, not real work"
- 4) Unrealistic expectations
- Boys over-estimate their ability and become over-confident and dont work hard enough. wanting to be professional footballers etc.
- 1) Teacher expectations
- MITOS & BROWNE: teachers may be less strict with boys allowing a lower standard of work
- 3) Changes in the Labour market
- Gender and subject choice
- 4) Peer pressure
- Boys opt out of music and drama as they are perceived as girl subjects and outside the male gender domain which may create a negative responce
- 1) Early socialisation
- NORMAN ET AL; stereotyping has already begun before school; girls play with dolls and kitchen sets and boy play with toys which develop their maths and science
- 3) Gender domain
- KELLY: pupils make the biggest contribution in making a subject favour a gender; boys shout out answers and dominate the classroom.
- 2) Subject image
- KELLY: science subjects are packaged to be boys subjects E.g textbooks are revolved around male things- cars & football
- 4) Peer pressure
- Reasons for improved girls achievement
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