Gender Differences In Achievement Flashcards
What are the 4 external reasons why girls achieve in education?
The impact of feminism
Changes In the family
Changes in woman’s employment
Girls changing ambitions
What are the 6 internal reasons why girls achieve in education?
Equal opportunities policy
Positive role models in schools
GCSE and Course work
Teacher attention
Changing stereotypes in the curriculum
Selection and league tables
What are the 4 reasons that girls underachieve in education?
Hyper-heterosexual feminine identities
Boyfriends
Being loud
Successful working class girls
What are the 2 external reasons that boys underachieve ?
Boys and Literacy
Decline of traditional mens jobs
What are the 3 internal factors why boys underachieve in education?
Feminism of Education
Shortage of male primary school teachers
Laddish ‘subcultures’
What are the 4 factors of gender and subject choice affecting education ?
Gender Role socialisation
Gender subject images
Gender identity and Peer pressure
Gendered career opportunities
What are the 6 factors of pupils sexual and gender identity which affects education?
Double standards
Verbal abuse
The Male Gaze
Male peer groups
Female peer groups
Teachers and discipline
Girls Achievement (External) How does the impact on feminism effected girls achievement?
Feminists have challenged stereotypes as women being the mother and house wife in the family.
Raised women expectations and self esteem (self image and ambitions)
Girls Achievement (External) What did Mcrobbies (1994) say about the impact on feminism and the achievement in education?
That magazines used to emphasise the importance of getting married whereas now they contain independent women
