boys and achievement

Question 1

what do boys say about male teachers

Answer 1

they make them behave better

Question 2

evaluation point of men being more disciplinary than women

Answer 2

Francis - 2/3 of 7 to 8 year olds did not mind gender
Read - The culture is feminised, there are two types of discourses

Question 3

disciplinarian discourse

Answer 3

authrotu is explicit and teacher is strict therefore more control

Question 4

liberal discourse

Answer 4

authority is implicit, teacher treats child like adult

Question 5

what did read find

Answer 5

out of 51 primary school teachers,
female teachers are just as likely to use disciplinarian discourse

Question 6

what did Epstein find about working class boys

Answer 6

they are more likely to be harassed and subjected to homophobic abuse and labelling
they are more concerned with being labelled than girls
school work is seen as feminine so they reject It

Question 7

what is moral panic about boys

Answer 7

the female empowerment has lead to boys being disadvantaged - ignoring girls problems in education
policies have been changed e.g. equal opportunities has been narrowed to include boys

Question 8

what did Norman and byrnesuggest about gender role socialisation in education

Answer 8

• boys and girls are treated differently
  Byrne suggested teachers encourage boys to be tough, and girls to be quiet and helpful

Question 9

what does gender role socialisation lead to in education

Answer 9

girls and boys develop different tastes in reading, leading to subject choice

Question 10

what are gender domains

Answer 10

tasks that genders see as male or female territory e.g. playing football, having a tear party

Question 11

what did Browne and ross, and Murphy suggest about gender domains

Answer 11

Browne and ross - beliefs are shaped by early expectations of adults
Murphy - genders pay attention to different things girls emotions and boys ar how things work

Question 12

what are gendered subject images

Answer 12

• determines who will choose the subject

Question 13

what did Kelly argue about gendered subject images

Answer 13

• science is seen as a boys subject due to teachers being men, dominating the lab and examples being drawn on boys

Question 14

evaluate gendered subject images

Answer 14

• single sex schools
• Leonard found girls are more likely to take science and maths and boys are more likely to take English in single sex school

Question 15

what is gender identity and peer pressure

Answer 15

genders less likely to choose subjects outside of domain for risk of being labelled

Question 16

what did paexhter suggest

Answer 16

sports is masculine and females labelled as butch for playing sports
absence of opposite sex leads to non traditional subject choices