Girls achievement: education
- Created by: mmcbride
- Created on: 31-03-15 17:36
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- Girls' achievement
- GCSE + coursework
- According to Mitsos + Browne, girls do better at coursework because they are more conscientious and better organised
- They mature earlier, can concen-trate for longer
- Changes in womens' employment
- 1970 equal pay act+1976 sex discrim-ination act
- Positive role models
- Now more female teachers + heads, providing positive, pro-educational role models
- Changes in the family
- More opportunity to be economically independent
- Increase in diver rates, smaller families etc.
- Educational policies
- National curriculum boys + girls largely study the same subjects
- GIST + WISE, science + technology
- Girls' changing perceptions and ambitions
- Sharpe 2 studies 1970s and 1990s
- 1970s - priorities, marriage, children etc
- 1990s - priorities, careers + being independent
- Sharpe 2 studies 1970s and 1990s
- Teacher attention
- Swann found boys dominate class discussions but girls prefer group work
- Better at listening + co-operating, favour with teachers
- Swann found boys dominate class discussions but girls prefer group work
- The influence of feminism
- Affects girls' self-image and aspirations
- GCSE + coursework
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