Internal factors - GENDER within boys underachievement

Question 1

Feminisation of education

Answer 1

Tony sewell
- schools do not nurture/ value traditional ‘masculine’ traits e.g competiveness, leadership, authoritative which are traits that boys are socialised into
- makes boys feel unvalued as they dont feel very comfortable in their atmosphere

Question 2

Shortage of primary school teachers

Answer 2

• lack of role model for boys as they feel like if they had more male role models they would be more motivated
• value connection
• if more teachers are female they will see learning as more feminine
  HOWEVER - more male teachers are coming into education

Question 3

Laddish subculture

Answer 3

• develops from peer pressure
• name calling, homophobic slurs etc and this develops an anti school subculture as they do not want to show what is deemed as non masculine traits
  HOWEVER - there is alot more mentoring schemes to help overcome narrow gender identities

Question 4

Subject choice

Answer 4

• gendered subject choice becomes more noticeable when students move onto A-levels.
• boys opt for maths, physics whereas girls choose subjects like eng lit, sociology
  Fiona norman (1988)
• from an early age boys and girls are dressed differently, given different toys and encouraged to take part in different activities which impacts their future choices

Question 5

Subject choice 2

Answer 5

• can be influenced by peer pressure
• carrie paechter
  
  • pupils see sport as manly and girls who enjoy sport have to cope with the image that contradicts the traditional female stereo type
• seen in when students pick their subject choices

HOWEVER - pupils who attend single sex schools tend to hold less stereotypes within subjects
- take more maths and science subjects while boys make take english and languages