Gender Differences in Achievement (Subject Choice)
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- Created on: 22-05-17 20:44
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- Gender Differences in Achievement
- Subject Choice
- Early socialisation
- It shapes children identity.
- Boys and girls are dressed differently and given different toys and activities
- They develop different tastes leading to different taste in subject choices due to hobbies
- Gendered subject image
- Gender image of a subject affects who will want to choose it.
- Subject are seen as boys and girls
- E.g science and maths is seen as masculine with teacher likely to be men and textbooks draw on male interest
- In single sex schools subject image isn't a problem as their is no-one to judge on an individual choice
- Peer Pressure
- Other boys and girls may apply pressure to an individual if they disapprove of their choice
- Boys tend to opt out of dance and music as it is seen as a famine and likely to attract a negative response
- Many worry about their self-image and try to avoid stereotypes so they pick subject in their gender domain
- Gendered career opportunities
- Another reason for subject choice is the fact employment is gendered.
- jobs tend to be sex types men and women
- The affects boys and girls ideas of what jobs are possible or acceptable
- Another reason for subject choice is the fact employment is gendered.
- Early socialisation
- Gendered Idenity
- Verbal Abuse
- Boys name call girls to put them down. Its a way dominate and sexual identifies are informed
- For boys it helps shape their male power if they name call or use verbal abuse
- male peer groups
- Boys in anti school subculture often accuse boys who want to do well 'gay'
- Peer groups reproduce a range of different class based masculine gender identities
- Working class boys work hard and aspired for middle class jobs
- Middle class boys got an image of effortless achievement
- Working class boys work hard and aspired for middle class jobs
- The Male Gaze- Mac an Ghaill
- The way pupils control each others identity.
- Male teacher an pupils eye up girls seeing them as sexual objects
- Male gaze is a way boys can show their dominate masculinity otherwise they risk being called gay
- Double standards- Lees
- Boys boast about sexual exploit, but cal a girl a **** if she doesn't have a steady boyfriend
- These double standards are an example of patriarchal ideology that justifies male power .
- Teacher and discipline
- Male teacher told boys off for being like girls and teased them when they got a lower marks than girls
- Male teachers have an attitude that is protective over female colleagues, going to their class to secure them
- Verbal Abuse
- Subject Choice
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