Gender - Internal Flashcards
What are the broad themes in gender: internal?
Positive role models, equal opportunities policies, GCSEs and coursework, attentions and stereotypes & selection and league tables.
Positive role models…
More women taking up higher positions in the education system. Primary schools are feminised which I still notions of gender domain. 60% of teachers are female, 16% of primary school teachers are male so there is a lack of positive make role models.
Carrington
Gender - Internal - positive role models
Teacher gender has little/no effect
Weiner
Gender - Internal - Equal Opportunities Policies
Teachers are beginning to challenge sexist stereotypes by removing sexist images from textbooks.
Equal opportunities policies…
Education reform act - all study the same thing (meritocratic). WISE, STEM & GIST. The education system is more aware to feminism now.
Mitsos and Browne
Gender - Internal - GCSEs and Coursework
More time on work/organisation, better speaking skills, mature quicker. The gender gap is a product of the changed assessment system.
Spender
Gender - Internal - Attentions and Stereotypes
Boys receive more negative attention in classrooms supported by FRANCIS AND GRODAR -> disruption.
Hargreaves
Gender - Internal - Attentions and Stereotypes
Halo effect, girls seen as better behaved.
Stanworth and Spencer
Gender - Internal - Attention and Stereotypes
When boys asked questions they were met with respect but girls were seen as unladylike.
Swan
Gender - Internal - Attention and Stereotypes
Boys dominate classroom discussions.
Selection and League Tables…
Boys are ‘liabilities’, selection policies, formula funding, marketisation if schools, attract parents.