Why girls are achieivng in education (internal factors)
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- Created on: 07-03-19 12:08
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- Why girls are achieving in education (internal factors)
- equal opportunity policies
- fiemisnt ideas- most schools a re likely to treat boys and girls equally
- policies like GIST encourage girls to persue careers in non-traditional areas.
- means girls are encouraged to work harder and therefore achieve more
- positive role models
- increasing proportion of female teachers and heads
- act as role models and show how its possible for women to achieve positions of importance
- may encourage girls to wrok hard in school in oder to achieve similarly important jobs
- gcses and corusework
- girls are better organized than boys so theyre more successful
- take care with presentation and are better at meeting deadlines
- teacher attention
- jane and peter French- teachers respond more positively to girls
- more likely to label boys as disruptive whereas girls as cooperative
- labelling may lead to self fulfilling prophecy in which successful interactions with teachers promote girls self esteem and rasie achievement levels
- challenging stereotypes in the curriclum
- removal of gender sterotypes from textbooks ect
- previously women were portrayed as housewives and men were in carers doing science
- rasies girls achievement by presenting them with more positive images of what women can do
- equal opportunity policies
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