Gender and achievement
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- Created on: 22-05-22 13:26
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2. Which of these is an out of school factor regarding gender and achievement?
- Subject choice
- Socialisation
- Teacher student relations
- Curriculum
3. What did Wilkinson say?
- Girls success due to post industrial changing attitudes of girls and depression of men. Feminist ideas filtering down media and education to family - increasing opportunities for women.
- Primary and secondary school females feel career is a sense of identity and future fulfilment not a stop gap before marriage. More girls looking to jobs requiring degrees.
- Social changed a part of heightened risk in society, causing insecurity for all creating a more individualised society. Where people are financially and socially independent- increases girls motive in education.
- Just like a girl - 1976 girls had traditional attitudes of marriage and children. 1994 girls attitudes changed, career and independent goals.
4. What did machin and mcnally say?
- Girls prefer sustained, open ended, process based and realistic task e.g. humanities subjects while boys do significantly better on multiple choice subject and questions.
- Girls favour long fiction and creative writing e.g Shakespeare. Which supports them in education whereas boys prefer short non-fiction.
- Change to HCSEs from O levels same time when girls performance increased, return to exams narrowed gender gap along with literacy and numeracy hour which improves girls maths and boys English.
- O levels geared towards boys as high risk final throw exams, GCSEs slightly more course work based towards girls as organisation skills necessary
5. What did mitsos and Browne say?
- Teachers aren’t as critical with boys as with girls because they have lower expectations of them which may have a self fulfilling effect on the boys
- “Poor boys” discourse that blames schools for failing to cater to boys and fails to appreciate and understand their masculinity.
- Gender of teachers has little to no impact on educational achievement.
- Girls passive and compliant learners so successful but boys have better education due to more teacher interactions but girls more at risk of self harm, sexual abuse, depression etc
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