Boys and Achievement

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The gender gap is a result of...
Boys' literacy and language skills (parents spend less time reading to their sons)
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How have boys' leisure pursuits influenced achievement?
Activities such as football and playing computer games have done little to develop language skills
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Mitos and Browne argued that..?
A decline in male employment oppertunities has lead to an identity crisis for men
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A criticism of Mitos and Browne is..?
There was not a decline in skilled jobs which require qualifications, thus there should be no effect on boys' motivations
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Sewell argued that..?
Education has become feminised and schools do not nurture 'masculine traits' and instead celebrate qualities associated with girls
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What has a shortage of male primary teachers led to?
A lack of a strong postive male rolemodels both at school and at home
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Francis argued that..?
Two-thirds of 7-8 year olds believed that teacher gender didn't matter
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Francis claimed that..?
Boys were more concerned than girls about being labelled by peers as swots because it was more of a threat to their masculinity
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Who claimed that laddish culture was becoming increasingly more widespread and why?
Francis - because females are getting careers and males respond by over-exaggerating thier masculinity
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Really good and helpful to find out what I didn't know and needed to revise :)

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