feminist perspective on the education system

Question 1

what do feminist believe about meritocracy?

Answer 1

it is false because the education system teaches a patriachal system which disadvantages women

Question 2

what does heaton and lawson argue?

Answer 2

that the school curriculum is patriachal and only teaches male achievement

Question 3

name subjects that can be seen as patriachal and why?

Answer 3

history and sports as they focus on male success and achievement

Question 4

evaluation of the patriachal curriculum?

Answer 4

there is starting to be more female success shown in history like learning about women such as mary scellessor

Question 5

What did MAC AND GHAIL argue?

Answer 5

the male gaze and sexual double standars females veiwed as sexual objects.for example having a boyfriend gives you sympolic capital but limits educational capital(like getting pregnant)

Question 6

what do feminist argue about social control?

Answer 6

the education system reinforces patriachy and therefore control women. through different subject choices, women have less access to top jobs

Question 7

A03 of social control?

Answer 7

there has been an increase in female financial independance

Question 8

what do feminist argue about secondary socialisation?

Answer 8

the education system socialises boys and girls into different gender identities. the hidden curriculum teaches pupils to accepts patriachy and follow gender scripts

Question 9

an example of secondary socialistion?

Answer 9

boys are encouraged to have leaderships characteristics while girls are encouraged to have caring charcateristics

Question 10

A03 of secondary socialisation?

Answer 10

there has been policies to help with these like GIST(girls into science and technology)

Question 11

what do feminist believe about specialist skills?and example?

Answer 11

boys taught to play the intrumental role(leadership) while gils the expressive(passive)

Question 12

A03 of specialist skills?

Answer 12

lacks comtempaorary relevance as there has been a decline in traditionaly masculine jobs and a feminisation of the economy with more office jobs

Question 13

what do feminist argue about sifting and sorting?how does the school do this?

Answer 13

the school prepare boys and girls for there diifernt roles in the family like gils are encouraged to do things like food techn while boys into science. leading girls to low paid jobs.

Question 14

A03 of sifting and sorting?

Answer 14

marxists will argue that feminist ignore class inequalities and how the working class are sifted into low sets which leads to lower paid jobs