Gender and Educational Achievement (boys)

Question 1

what did swann and garddol say?

Answer 1

quality of interaction with teachers is different, girls are helped with work and boys are told off (boys treated more negatively)

Question 2

what did jackson suggest?

Answer 2

that schools label boys negatively creating a self fulfilling prophecy, but it depends on the type of boy, some boys have positive feedback
some boys may feel : excluded, under-developed and alienated

Question 3

what did sukhanden say?

Answer 3

there is high anti-learning/ school subcultures among boys for example lads enjoyed school but just because they like to ridicule earoles girls and teachers, refect work and form anti-school subcultures

Question 4

what is Phillips suggest?

Answer 4

boys see educational success as linked with femininity ( girly to work hard)
boys do not identify with female teachers and hard work is for wimps

Question 5

what studies could you use for in school factors for boys?

Answer 5

phillips 
jackson
mitsos and browne 
swann and garddol
willis

Question 6

what studies could you use for out of school factors for boys?

Answer 6

mac an ghaill
milne
sukhanden
willis

Question 7

what did mitsos and browne say?

Answer 7

girls are more successful in coursework than boys because they are conscientious and better organised than boys girls will:
send more time on their work
better at meeting deadlines
take more care with prep
bring right equipment and materials to lessons

Question 8

what did mac an ghail find?

Answer 8

the crisis of masculinity
working class boys dont see a point in working hard because they have a bleak future ahead
why would w/c boys avoid working hard in class?
-they don’t what there future is and the decline of industry means they have lost their role in society
-they dont see the point
- we could argue there is an increasing need for boys in education

Question 9

what did milne find?

Answer 9

expectations of boys
parents expect their sons to go to university less than they expect of their daughters to (62%-67%) and this transmits to personal aspirations of the boys and girls 80% want to go to uni, where as 75% of boys what to.

Question 10

what is an evaluation of milne ?

Answer 10

not really a significant difference between 62-67% and 80 an 75%