Feminist

Question 1

To socialise students into a culture of inequality through the hidden curriculum (Skelton)

Answer 1

argues hidden curriculum responsible for perpetuating gender difference in subject choices

students live up/ down to the expectation/labels of teachers due to subconscious bias being passed on through teachers attitudes surrounding gender and subject choices

Question 2

To reinforce ideologies that prepare students to accept patriarchal world of work ( Kelly and Colley)

Answer 2

kelly - science packaged for boys e.g. textbooks have few females and teachers use boys interests for examples + allow boys to dominate classroom

Colley - subject choice affected by 3 things subject preference, perception of gender roles and learning environment

Question 3

To reinforce and reproduce a culture of inequality through transmission of patriarchal values (Heaton and Lawson)

Answer 3

argue hidden curriculum is major source of socialisation and operates in 3 ways
- patriarchal curriculum = boys recognised more than girls and A level subjects are very gender specific
- Teachers expectations - boys asked to move furniture
- Lack of positive role models - more female teachers than men , but men in senior management positions e.g. secondary school women constitute 62%, 38% are head teachers

Question 4

Reinforced gender role socialisation ( Spender)

Answer 4

argues women are invisible in education + states core curriculum is male biased with limited attention paid to role of women in history, arts or sciences

discusses male dominance - attention in classroom and mixed - sex education