Gender and Education
- Created by: Freya Carter
- Created on: 09-04-21 13:50
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- Gender differences in education
- Boys under achieving
- globalisation - decline in traditional men jobs
- male identity crisis. Loss of motivation and self-esteem
- feminisation of schooling
- Sewell - boys fall behind because education has become feminised
- assessments have been feminised - more coursework
- lack of male primary school teachers - only 1 in 6 are men
- lack of male role models at home
- increase in number of female-headed families means boys don't see a male role model going out to work
- less likely to see the value of employment & qualifications
- Literacy
- parents spend less time reading to sons - mothers read to children so seen as a feminine activity
- Boys leisure interests don't encourage language and communication skills
- girls 'bedroom culture' does
- because language and literacy are important in most subjects - boys poorer skills impact their achievement
- 'laddish' subcultures
- Francis - found boys were more concerned than girls about being labelled swots
- WC culture sees non-manual work as as effeminate and inferior
- Epstein - found pro-school WC boys were likely to be labelled as 'gay'
- Francis - found boys were more concerned than girls about being labelled swots
- globalisation - decline in traditional men jobs
- Gender and subject choice
- In the national curriculum
- most subjects compulsory but where their is choice G&B choose differently eg. food tech vs DT
- In post-16 education
- more choice available, larger gender differences occur. eg boys opt for maths & girls for sociology
- in vocational subjects
- gender segregation at its highest. only 1% of construction apprentices are female
- early socialisation
- gender domains
- gendered subject images
- gender identity and peer pressure
- gendered careers
- In the national curriculum
- Gender identity and schooling
- Connell - school reproduced hegemonic masculinity
- feminists argue school acts as a form of social control to reproduce patriarchy
- Lees - boys call girls slags, but there is no equivalent for males.
- Haywood & Mac an Ghaill - male teachers reinforced gender identities by telling off boys for 'behaving like girls'
- The male gaze - form of social control
- Double standards. Lees - boys boast about their own sexual exploits but label girls negatively for the same behaviour
- Boys under achieving
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