gender Flashcards
how does changing family structure influence girls achievement
such as dual families , working mothers are now acting as positive role models for daughters to aspire for a career and therefore academic achievement to fulfil this
evdience for gender socialisation affecting gender achievement
Edwards and David suggested that gender differentiated socialisation has given girls the initial advantage in both primary and secondary school
- mothers more likley to talk to baby girls more, bedroom culture, girls taught to conform more so will be less boisterious and better behaved in school
barber on boys education
over estimate ability - link to patraicrhy thinkinhg they are better - blames others when they fail
jackson on teacher labelling + gender
teachers had higher and positive expectations of girls
- expected boys to be late and work to be messy
- girls model students
- sfp and boys go to anti school subcultures
- link to league tables
who did the magazine study
mcrobbie
who found that single sex schools had more girls doing maths and scinece a levels, and boys english
Diana Leonard
what is boffin identity
raey -
wc girls who want to be successful have to conform to school idenity of asexuality and lacking interest in boyfriends and fashion
- results in potential risk of exclusion from friends though
what does evans identify with wc successful girls
‘caring’ aspect of values keeps them from staying close to families and low ambitions post school
- local over distant
3 similarities of func and new right
- they both believe in social solidarity in schools and instilling national identity
- both belive some are more naturally talented than others
- favour education system run on meritocracy and open competition
3 ways education reinforces trad gender identities
- subject choice - girls go into lower status jobs - nurses etc, while boys go into respteced stem
- male gaze+ double stabdrads (reinforce patrarchal conecpts and masculine hegemony)
- peer groups ( police pupils gender identities and punish non confirmity - girls being masculine for choosing sport) link to single sex schools - leonard
what are diff types of pupil identities (5)
- subcultures - wc boys - willis’ lads
- archer -wc girls - hyper heterosexual, loud, boyfrineds
- male peer groups hegemonic masculinity - double standrads and male gaze etc - mac an ghail - call boys gay for doing work
- labels can affect pupils idenity on if they are smart and belong in school
- nike identities - archer - symbolic violence - designer sportrswear - schools reject it
explain study on diff books boys and girls read
murphy and elwood
- boys more likley to read hobby and information texts whereas girls read story books
