Sociology Education- Girls Achievement

This section of flash cards cover the explaination for girls achievement in education.

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Equal Opportunities policies

  • GIST- Girls in science and Technology
  • WISE- Women into science and engineering- these organisations enoruage career aspirations rather than traditional areas. 
  • The National curiculum introducation in 1998 meant that women had to study the same things as boys. 
  • Boaler- this policty meant that barriers have been removed and making education more meritocratic  becuase girls achieve more than boys they achieve higher.
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Positive Role Models

  • The female teachers number has increased while the male teacher. 
  • This change means that the number of female role moddles with higher paying jobs and better influcnec over kids as role models inspires kids to do better and females to follow their career aspiration and dreams to become succeful. 
  • Sue Sharpe Backed up this claim and said that from the interiews she conducted between 1970 and 1990. Up On comapring the results of between this time. Girls in 1970 wanted to care for their husbands and follow the traditonal routes. But in 1990, the woomen wanted to follow their careers before family and husbands. Many of which influences seemed to come from Media and maazines.- Teachers influence the importance of education by gaining such postion.
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GCSE and coursework

  • Gorard- The changes of the education reform in 1998 that favoured girls over boys with GCSE and coursework. The gender gap was constant upuntil 1998 but after this reform girls always had a greater edge to boys.
  • Mitsos and Browne- argued that this is true but not only this, girls Speaking skills are better than boys because they have better lanuage skills. 
  • Girls tend to spend more time on their work compared to boys. All of this helps the girls have a greater edge than boys with the education reform of 1998 GCSE and Coursework.

However...

Elwood argues that the final results depend on the exam; so no matter how mcuh work is put into the exam, it is all based around your merit.

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Teacher Attention

  • Research suggests that teachers respond postiivily to girls rather than boys. Teachers see girl as more coperative and boys as distruptive. 
  • Swann discovered in one of her studies that girls work better in pairwork and boys cant dominate the learning, so teachers will favour them over the boys. - this means that teachers will promote girls self-esteem and raise their achievement levels.
  • This may lead to a self-fulfiling prophecy in which girls are always superior in education and self-esteem and boys are not.

However..

  • Reasearch from Abraham suggested that teahcers precieved boys as being disrutive and rude and girls as being self confident- such can like this teachers already expect abd behaviour from boys. 
  • Francis- fround that boys felt like they were being pick on by teachers who have lower expectatios of them.
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Change in stereotypes in the curriculum

  • Some sociologsist belive that removing the gender sterotypes by the introduction of the Equal Oppunritnities act 2010 allowed women to get where they wanted in the world. 
  • Teachers have challenegd these sterotypes and over come them to be a good role model for their students- this reinfroces a greater achievement for women. 
  • Weiner- Since the 1980s Teachers have challenged gender sterotyping. Alot of reforms have happened like removing sexist images from textbooks, which help build self-esteem within the young girls.
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Selection and League tables

  • Marketization policies and greater use of selection creates a more competitive climate in schools.
  • Jackson- the introduction of league tables makes girls valued more than boys, which creates a self-fullfiling prophecy.
  • Girls are seen as more desirable recruits than boys as they achieve better exam results than boys. 
  • Boys are seen as a 'Liabilty Students' which are barriers to the efforts by schools to climb the league tables because of the decling results of boys. 

However...

  • Girls are achieving more than ever before, but radical femenists still would argue that the eduction system still remains patriaticual. 
  • Sexual harrasemnts are still happening- 59% of 14-16 Year olds expereince some form of sexual harrasment in 2014. 
  • Secondary heads are still mainly male dominated. Although 62% of the Public sector is female dominated but their are only 36% female headteachers and 64% male headteachers.
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