Gender, educational achievement and subject choice
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- Gender, educational achievement and subject choice
- Trends in gender and achievement
- Michele Cohen
- Girls have educationally outperformed boys in the early years of schooling since mass education was introduced in the UK
- Haralambos and Holborn
- The performance of boys and young men in education has been steadily improving
- McDonald et al
- The generalisation that girls outperform boys applies most strongly to working class children
- Michele Cohen
- Gender role socialisation
- Edwards and David
- Gender-differentiated primary socialisation gives girls an initial advantage in both primary and secondary schools
- Burns and Bracey
- Girls at secondary schools generally work harder and are more motivated than boys
- Kindon and Thompson
- Boys interrupt more frequently and answer more often even when they do not know the answer
- Francis
- Boys no longer consider themselves as more able than girls
- Edwards and David
- Social change and the effect on girls
- Helen Wilkinson
- Young women have experienced a genderquake in terms of profound changes in their attitudes and expectations about their futures
- Francis and Skelton
- The majority of female pupils appear to see their chosen career as reflecting their identity and as a vehicle for future fulfilment, rather than as simply a stopgap before marriage
- Helen Wilkinson
- Social change and the effects on boys
- Mac an Ghail
- Working-class boy experience a 'Crisis of masculinity'
- Wragg
- Pessimism about the world of work, induced by declining job prospects for males , has filtered down to primary school boys and undermines their desire to work hard
- Jackson
- Working-class male adolescents conclude that education and qualifications are irrelevant because they can see that the jobs they will end up doing are unskilled or semi-skilled at best and not very well-paid
- Francis and Skelton
- Underachieving boys are often vulnerable, confusion and insecure
- Mac an Ghail
- Trends in gender and achievement
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