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This is reinforced in the parallel curriculum presented by the mass media. An the message that students get–from both the content and the form of education—is that women and men are different and unequal, that the inequality comes from differences, and that therefore, such inequality is justified

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Hidden curriculum

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Young boys struggle w/inconsistency b/w schools promotion of civility and the “warrior narrative” of masculinity.

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Differential treatment

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some opponents believed that bringing women and men together would have disastrous effects on both sexes. B/c the “minds of men and women are radically diff.”

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co-education

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some worried that education men and women together would “——–” the collegiate curriculum, watering it down by forcing the inclusion of subjects and temperaments better omitted, slowing down pace, or otherwise reducing standards that would allow women to keep up.

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emasculate

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G. Stanely Hall did what about co-education

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warned about co-education, it would take away women’s femininity and it would feminineize men and would cause homo-sexuality all in all “dilute” the attraction f the opposite sex

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why do we go to school?

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to manifest functions (i.e. gain skills/knowledge, be a better citizen, learn how to interact, become socialized…) which are INTENDED CONSEQUENCES

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Is the hidden curriculum revolutionary?

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no

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Why, the hidden curriculum?

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Status quo, social order, unintended outcomes/latent functions, teaching gender inequality, stressing gender inequality, stressing culture, class differentiation funding, reinforcing stereotypes and taught not to question, differential value given to subject matter

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In kindergarden

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Children start to understand what it means to be a boy/girl

Sep. kids by gender right away

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Do teachers intend to treat children diff.?

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no

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Teachers unintended;

Girls vs. Boys in the classroom

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boys receive more positive attention than girls do inn the classroom
boys are called on more often
boys allowed to speak out of turn
boys given more practical assistance

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________ outnumbered ———- by 5:2 ratio,; there were three times as many adult male characters as adult female characters; six times as many biographies of men as of women; and four times as many male fairy tales as female.

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bot-centered stories and girl-centered stories

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Rosanthai and Jacobson 1968

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Pygmalion study

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“spurters”

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ID scores- told teachers that showed potential and and had good scores

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Students that were determined to be “sputters” on avg

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had an increase of more than 12 pts on their IQ score compared to a 8 pt increase on the rest of the students

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1st and 2nd graders Students that were determined to be “sputters” on avg

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20 pts more

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What did the Pygmalion study theory

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the self-fulfilling prophecy b/c the Sputters felt more capable and intelligent and TF performed accordingly

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Differential treatment: AAUW defines diff treatment in school

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as a major part of declining self-esteem in girls

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As —– reach middle school ——- plumits and are valued for ——– not ———-

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girls
self-esteem
appearance not talents

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Middle school is what kind of environment for girls

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sexual hostile

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what are the outcome for girls?

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self-esteem drops
not pretty, TF work on skills
eating disorders
victims of bullying which is a collective outcome

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what is the differential treatments that boys receive and what are the outcomes of these?

What happens if boys are good in school?

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struggle w/inconsistency b/w schools
the warmer narrative of masculinity
report cards are worse than girls
drop out rates are higher
there is a disconnect b/w school and masculinity

Than their masculinity is questioned

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”—–” alos takes place with in a sexually hostile environment

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chilly classroom climate

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No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance

the education act of 1972 contained —– which abolished sex discrimination in public schools and has since been taken to mandate the women’s sports be funded equally with men’s (excluding football, which is extraordinarily expensive for schools to fund and which virtually no women are able to play)

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Title IX

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The sissification of literature and life (1927)

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literature is being emasculated by being written mainly for women and largely by women. Th majority of men in this country, having been co-educated by women teachers, are unaware of this

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Gender disparities are both

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numerical and experimental

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in 1982 women began to surpass men in college, today –% of college students are female

3 women for every 2 men i community college

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60%

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women have now outnumbered men in

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social and behavioral science in about by 3 to 1 and make up 20% of all students in engineering and are half in biology an business

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a difference that appears to be about gender but is actually about something else, in this case class or race

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deceptive distinction

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the shortage of male college students is also actualy a shortage of nonwhite males

36%=
30%=

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36

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the reforms that have been initiated to benefit girls in class:———- have also been to the benefit to boys as well as such methods would also target boys specific experiences

instead about worring about numbers alone we should look at the ——-

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industrialized instruction
attention to different learning pathways
new initiatives
classroom configurations 
teacher training
more collabrative team building efforts

effect

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men & depression: level of bullying is different;

also the difference b/w how diff races are treated:
white boy:
black boy

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we now have social media
beauty aspects are being inflicted on men today
what school wants and how men are socialized

wht: naturally naughty
blk: delinquent, vicious

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performance, deciding which students should take what path, education is decided by the educators.

How is this influenced

this takes effect=

(hence the Pygmalion study)

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Tracking

by gender as well as attitude

1st 20 min of class

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making sure that no one contravenes the rules of masculinity

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gender policing

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the imposition of strenuous, often humiliating, tasks as part of a program of rigorous physical training and initiation

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hazing

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this means exploding in a murderous rage– as many classmates and teachers as you can with you

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doing a columbine

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b/w 1992 and 2006, there have been _____ of random school violence in which a young boy (or boys) opened fire on classmates

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in the 18th and 19th cent , teaching had been seen as a respectable male profession. It was not until the mid-19th and late 19th cent gender ideology of the separation of spheres, meant the women were pushed out of other arenas of work, and soon began to see elementary education s a way they could fulfill both their career aspirations and their domestic functions of maternal nurturance

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“the legend of the sleepy hollow

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sex composition of the labor force is related to

the greater proportion of women in the field the

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salary structure

lower the salary

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an educational track that prepares students for careers and jobs at various levels from a trade to a craft or a position in engineering, accounting, nursing, medicine etc.

(i.e. honors, AP, college bond)

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vocational track

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having the intention or made plans to go to college

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college bound

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tracking is a ___________ _________ ______ a decision made by the professionals

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differential educational path

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Talcot Parsons

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investigation of tracking system led to the conclusion that tracking is a system that molds education and career paths of children at a very early age. By the time they finish 8th grade they are entered whether they are going to school or not.
determined in elementary school

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put everyone in same class, getting same education but some kids are at diff. levels

education is a right not a privilege,not valued well

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Detracking

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gender reading materials

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reinforcement of ideology
from academic textbooks, to lit., to fiction
presented as authority
males have more active roles/ women have more passive submissive roles and are known as supporters

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Gender in HS:

SAT scores

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in the US girls outscore more in writing
boys outscore more in math Similarly the same on reading and writing
It is racial and biased towards ppl who do better at multi. choice

Claims of gender bias in test constructions have been levied at the test creator, ETS

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Gender and post secondary education:

US has the ———– attending college of any nation in the world

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highest proportion of women

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women have surpassed men in ————–

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percent earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degree

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———– comprise growing percent of recent female graduates

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lower income and older women

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these persist in discipline

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Gender gaps

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gender and educational workplace

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preschool, elemen., secondary teachers
college faculty
administrators
student evaluations

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Elite universities are

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over represented by men (i.e yale, harvard, etc)

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Comprehensive universities

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have some women mostly men (i.e. A & M, Texas Tech) more open, but do special things for minorities

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individuals in Social action ( affermative action) are

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mostly women who go out and help get ppl in

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the hierarchy in the education system

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mimics the work place

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teaching professionals: (3) inequality by types and teaching professions

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college university
secondary
primary

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college universities

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egin to see more men than womena nd have a probation system fro about five years

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Secondary

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we beging to see more men here (HS, middle school) if we do see women then they are teaching liberal

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Primary

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we except to see women at this level (elementary, preschools

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top down=
Fulln (Dr. Lewis)
10 year (women rarely get here)
Assiociate professor (can still get fired)
Adjunk (do not have a contract, nothing is certain)
-lecture 1
-lec. 2 (professor Robertson)
-lec.3
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COLLEGE
w/in dept of men and women that have been there(associate) get paid less than men; same amount of time for both the man and women

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Education and workplace:

The correspondence principle

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explains the organization of schools as intended to produce docile; obedient workforce for capitalist society (bowles and Glintis 1978)

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the correspondence principle has 3 points

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  1. follow institutional rules (de dependable, punctual, obedient)
  2. accept the hierarchy of authority which is men)
  3. external rewards are the most important to students (learning for pleasure and gaining ideas form others)
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when do threats appear for women?

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when women move out of their positions

64
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where is the teaching mostly done

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primary teaching

65
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particularistic Strategicisim

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individualize things, put things together, concepts

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equality is always seen as the

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loss for the privileged

67
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pedagogical

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relating to a teacher or education

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the fiction maintained by segregated schools to maintain segregation, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1954 but, as VMI protested, “distinct but superior” bc bc educational methodologies would be tuned to the needs of males and females, respectively

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“separate but equal”

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SINGLE sex schools or single-sex classrooms

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218

70
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brown vs board of education

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“seperate but equal” 1954
separate public schools for whites and blacks unconstitutional over turned plessy vs ferguson which allowed state sponsored segregation

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