feminist perspective on education
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- Created on: 01-03-20 12:37
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- feminist perspective on education
- liberal feminist
- celebrate the progress made so far in improving girls' achievenment
- believe that the 'future is now female'
- since girls are outperforming boys in education
- only a matter of time until more women move into higher paid, political, managerial roles in work.
- radical feminist
- argue that patriarchy still works in schools
- patriarchy works through school to reinforce gender norms
- the concern over boys' relative underachievement is seen as a moral panic
- boys are improving, just not as fast
- the focus on raising boys achievement reflects the male dominated system panicking at the first signs of the old patriarchal system breaking down
- despite improvements in girls education, subject choices still seem heavily gendered and girls do not seem to be 'breaking the glass ceiling'
- traditional gender norms are reinforced in schools, to the disadvantage of girls
- girls are increasingly subject to sexist bullying
- evaluation
- there have been successful campaigns which aim to increase girls' involvement in STEM subjects and sport.
- liberal feminist
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