Gender Differences in Achievement - completed

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  • Created by: Ellie Rae
  • Created on: 07-04-17 00:33
Impact of Feminism
Affects girls self image and ambitions in regards to family and careers therefore improves educational acheivment.
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Changes in Family
An increase in divorce, increase in lone parent families. Affecting girls attitudes towards education i.e more women need to take on breadwinner role, new role model for girls financially independent women to achieve independence-need qualifications.
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Changing Ambitions
The view that changes in the family and employment are producing changes in girls ambitions supported by evidence from research.
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Class, Gender and Ethnicity
All of these three explanations of achievement work in conjunction with each other and cannot be operationalised (one cannot be used alone as the sole purpose or underachievement).
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Equal Opportunity Policy
Teachers are more aware and able to avoid stereotyping. The introduction of the national curriculum in 1988 removed gender inequality in schools by making girls and boys study mostly the same subjects which was not previously the case.
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National Curriculum
Introduced in 1988, means that girls and boys now largely study the same subjects.
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WISE and GIST
Programmes to encourage girls into science and technology.
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Positive Role Models
Women in senior positions such as head teachers, may act as role models as they show women can achieve high positions of importance. Gives girls bigger goals to aim for.
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Course Work
Changes in the way pupils are assessed have favoured girls and disadvantaged boys.
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Teacher Attention
French- Analysed classroom interaction they found boys received more attention because they attracted more reprimands.
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Selection and League Tables
Marketisation policies have created a more competitive climate in which schools see girls as desirable recruits because they achieve better exam results.
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Symbolic Capital
Status, recognition and self worth recieved from others which conflicts with the school values.
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Hyper-Hetrosexual Identities
Many girls construct 'glamorous' identities that earn symbolic capital from their female peers but conflict with school over appearance.
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Boys and Literacy
The gender gap is due to males poor literacy skills. Parents spend less time reading to their sons. The government introduced policies to help; The reading champions, the dad and sons and Raising boys achievement.
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Globalisation and Decline of 'Mens Jobs'
Mitsos & Browne- Since 1960s there has been a decline in heavy industries. This decline in male employment has caused as identity crisis for men. Undermining their self esteem and motivation to get qualifications.
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Feminisation of Education
Sewell- Boys fall behind because education has become more feminised. Schools don't jetties masculine traits, they celebrate qualities closely related with women. He argues coursework should be replaced with outdoor adventure in the curriculum.
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Moral Panic About Boys
Critics of the impact of feminism on education argue that policies to promote girls education are no longer needed and girls have already succeed at the expense of boys (coursework, feminisation of education, ideal pupil).
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Feminism
Argue that experiences in school act as a form of social control to reproduce patriarchy by verbal abuse; teachers; the male gaze; double standards and female peer groups: policing identity.
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An increase in divorce, increase in lone parent families. Affecting girls attitudes towards education i.e more women need to take on breadwinner role, new role model for girls financially independent women to achieve independence-need qualifications.

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Changes in Family

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The view that changes in the family and employment are producing changes in girls ambitions supported by evidence from research.

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All of these three explanations of achievement work in conjunction with each other and cannot be operationalised (one cannot be used alone as the sole purpose or underachievement).

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Teachers are more aware and able to avoid stereotyping. The introduction of the national curriculum in 1988 removed gender inequality in schools by making girls and boys study mostly the same subjects which was not previously the case.

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