Gender and achievement
- Created by: A-bee
- Created on: 04-06-17 14:54
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- Gender
- Stats + summary
- baseline assessments: girls 7-17% points better than boys
- Key stages 1-3: girls do better than boys in English, less so in maths and science
- GCSE: 10% points difference
- A-level gap still exists, even in male dominated subjects
- External Factors
- Feminism: challenged stereotypes
- Changes in the family:
- SPF women take on breadwinner role
- girls are encouraged to get a job and provide for themselves
- Changes in employment: Equal Pay Act (1970), Sex Discrimination Act (1975)
- Changes in ambition: Sharp (1994)
- in the 70s W/C girls had low aspirations. In the 90s girls priorities were having a career
- Internal Factors
- Equal opportunities policy: national curriculum (same subjects, non-sexist careers advice
- Positive role models: female teachers and headteachers
- GCSE and Coursework: Gorard (2005)
- girls do better at coursework (organised, meet deadlines etc), more developed language skills
- Teacher attention: teachers have lower expectations of boys and are harsher
- Boys Achievement
- literacy: boys literacy skills are worse
- mothers spend less time reading to boys
- boys hobbies do little to develop language
- Decline in traditional male jobs: Mitsos and Brown - crisis of masculinity, lose motivation
- feminisation of education: Sewell - schools don't nurture masculine traits (competitive, leadership)
- Less male primary school teachers (14%)
- boys work harder with male teachers
- Laddish Subcultures
- labelled as 'sissies' if they work hard
- literacy: boys literacy skills are worse
- Subject choice
- socialisation: given different toys, teachers encourage different behaviour
- gendered subject images: science teachers are male, textbooks draw in boys interests, boys dominated the lab
- peer pressure: pupils don't choose subjects outside their gender in fear of being made fun of
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