Feminism and Education
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- Created on: 01-02-18 12:44
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- Feminism and Education
- Gendered language
- Textbooks tend to use gendered language e.g. man and men in reference to people
- Downgrades women and makes them invisible
- Gendered roles
- Reading schemes present males and females into traditional roles e.g. women as mothers
- Textbooks should rwpresent opposite gender roles
- Further and higher education
- Traditionally there was a lower number in the number of girls in higher and further education
- Teachers gave more encouragement than girls
- Gender stereotypes
- Reading schemes tend to represent traditional stereotypes
- Analysis of 6 reading schemes from 1960s and 1970s
- Boys = adventurous, stronger and more choices
- Girls = more caring, interested in domestic matters abd followers instead of leaders
- Discrimination
- 11+ had lower pass mark for boys to ensure equal numbers in grammar schools
- Girls 'failed' artificially to allow boys to succeed
- Evaluation
- A lot of sexism has disappeared
- Attitudes have changed but not behaviour
- Women have overtake men and women's grades are higher and are going into higher education
- Makes equality changes seem easy
- Boys now underachieve
- Gendered language
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