EDUCATION; GENDER
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- Gender-EDUCATION
- External factors affecting achievement
- Impact of feminism: MCROBBIE points out changes in magazines (media)
- 1970s= 'traditional' women: emphasis the importance of marriage
- 1990s= women are more assertive, independent.
- This has affected achievement outside of school. This has helped raise expectations of women and self esteem of women.
- GCSE and coursework: GORAD
- GORAD found that gender gap in achievement was constant during 1975-1989.
- The gender gap in achievement changed when GCSE'S and coursework was introduced.
- Girls benefited from the GCSE system due to early socialization and performed better than boys as they can meet demands of GCSE and coursework.
- However, ELWOOD argues that coursework may have some influence but is unlikely to be the only cause to gender gap- exams have an influence on final grades too.
- Impact of feminism: MCROBBIE points out changes in magazines (media)
- Internal factors affecting achievment
- EPSTEIN ET Al: boys harassed. PEER GROUP PRESSURE.
- Boys who worked hard were at risk of harassments as they were given names such as 'girly' or gay'
- this produces an anti- learning subculture. Girls are then not attacked by harassments so perform better in education than boys.
- According to an article published by the BBC in 2019, MC are more likely to succeed in education compared to WC showing social class has a greater impact on educational achievement compared to gender.
- SPENDERS: more time spent on boys
- teachers time is mostly spent on troublesome boys rather than girls who are keen to learn.
- Girls are not faultless and have behavioral issues too. Girls schools face problems where boys are not present
- EPSTEIN ET Al: boys harassed. PEER GROUP PRESSURE.
- External factors affecting subject choices
- OAKLEY: what parent did to children to make them choose certain subjects in future
- Manipulation; encouraging children to behave a certain way and rewarding them.
- VERBAL APPELATIONS : type of language that persuaded children. e.g 'my princess or prince'
- Different activities: Girls encouraged to participate in indoor activities and boys outdoor.
- OAKLEY: what parent did to children to make them choose certain subjects in future
- Internal factors affecting subject choices
- LOBAN: 1974, books assigned by school to read.
- Research found gender stereotyping in books which encourages teh self fulling prophecy.
- in books women were mainly linked to domestic roles
- this affects subject choices as children choose subject choices based on what roles there gender carries out in books.
- The research is outdated and books have changed
- LOBAN: 1974, books assigned by school to read.
- External factors affecting achievement
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