Gender Differences In Education Flashcards
Name 3 internal factors
Teacher/pupil relationships
Hidden curriculum
The organisation of teaching and learning
Pupil identity and subcultures
Give some example self teacher/pupil relationships
Swann 1998 –> gender differences in educational communication, boys prefer whole group discussions where as girls prefer group or pair work. Girls are viewed as cooperative and boys are viewed as disruptive.
Hartley and Sutton 2011 –> they feel that stereotyping and labelling created a self fulling prophecy in the performance of boys
They researched 140 children in 3 Kent primary school and spilt them into 2 groups. The first group was told that the boys performed worst however the second group weren’t
They were then tested and the boys in the first group did a lot worse then the boys in the send group.
Give examples of the organisation of teaching and learning
- increase of female heads and teachers
- 14% of primary school teachers are male, boys say that they would perform better if they were thought by a male teacher
- Francis 2008 said that 8 years olds didn’t think that gender mattered
Give examples of the hidden curriculum
Sewell 2006 –> says that boys have been thrown out of the bath water and that at school they celebrate traits she associated with girls and not boys e.g. Leadership
Kelly wiener 1995 –> argues that since the 1980’s teacher have challenged sex stereotyping and all sex stereotyping images have been removed.
Examples of pupil identity and sub-culture
- Debbie Epstein 1998 says that construction of schools may not move on and WC boys are more likely to be harassed and labelled
What did browne and Ross think ( 1991 )
The gender domains
1) socialisation
2) careers - men tend not to go for nursing jobs
3) peer pressure - boys not go for dance of music due to friends
4) subject image - physics and maths are a subject image for boys however sociology and health and social are images for girls
Dewar 1990 said that boys called women ‘butch’ if they took Pe
