Gender differences in educational achievement
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- Created on: 30-05-17 15:19
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- Gender differences in achievement
- External
- Feminism
- Changes in the law, e.g. Sex discrimination act
- changing attitudes
- Sharpe's study, 1970s wanted marriage and babies, 1990s wanted paid career and independence
- changing attitudes
- Changes in family structure - More divorce meaning women have more need to be financially independent so have to get qualifications
- Internal
- Introduction of coursework into GCSES - Mitsos and Browne
- Elwood -limited impact as exams count more to final grade
- Removal of negative gender images from textbooks
- GIST & WISE
- More female teachers, positive role models
- Boys and girls have similar amount of attention but boys get more attention for being naughty
- Girls create hyper heterosexual feminine identities which gain symbolic capital but clash with schools
- Schools commit symbolic violence by devaluing their culture
- Boyfriends bring with them a lot of symbolic capital but clash with school
- Schools commit symbolic violence by devaluing their culture
- Introduction of coursework into GCSES - Mitsos and Browne
- Boys
- Parents will read to girls more than boys meaning boys have poorer literacy skills
- Schemes like reading champions aim to reverse this
- Epstein - boys more concerned about being labelled as swots
- Globalisation has led to NIDL - created an identity crisis among boys as they have lost traditional manufacturing jobs meaning they don't try as hard
- Ringrose - Moral panic around boys has led to a neglect of problems faced by girls
- Sewell claims schools no longer nurture masculine traits like competitiveness
- Parents will read to girls more than boys meaning boys have poorer literacy skills
- Gender identities
- Subject choice
- Boys more likely to choose maths and science, girls choose english and social sciences. Only 1% of construction apprentices are female
- Gender domains - taught in socialisation (boys/girls toys)
- Gendered careers,e.g boys as builders and girls as nurses
- Subject choice
- External
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