Educational Achievement: Gender Flashcards
1
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Sharpe (1974/1994)
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Most girls moved from wanting to get married and being housewives in 1974, to focussing on having a successful career in 1994.
2
Q
Mitsos and Browne (1998)
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Girls are more successful in coursework; spend more time, take care, meet deadlines, equipped for lessons. Oral exams benefit girls, who have better linguistic skills. Girls socialised to be neat, tidy and patient.
3
Q
Mac an Ghaill (1996/7)
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Male teachers uphold gender norms by telling boys off for ‘behaving like girls’, and ignoring boys’ verbal abuse of girls. This conduct creates a subculture of negative stereotypes and ideologies within education, affecting the subjects boys and girls go on to study.
