The Gendered Classroom Flashcards
edward clarke was a harvard-trained physician who suggested that it was not proper to educate boys and girls the same way because…
…boys enter the world more developed than girls and were able to take on education.
according to edward clarke, key physical features were seen to contribute to…
…educational success based on height, weight, and muscle growth
Women were considered more prone to illness, brain troubles, sudden death if internal or external forces were too much according to Edward Clarke, he thought it had to do with education, but what was he probably observing?
menopause
Hill and Lynch (1983) proposed that beginning with adolescence, girls and boys face increased pressure to…
…conform to culturally sanctioned gender roles because of puberty and attraction to the opposite sex.
Research suggests that gender intensification is influenced more by…
…family gendered roles that by the influence of peer groups
Eate et. al. (2016) Many suggest that school environments favour girls due to…
…the over-representation of women as teachers and their feminization of education where women’s learning style is implemented.
boys’ and girls’ brains are sufficiently different that there are identifiable and innate skills sets unique to each gender
Biological Argument
boys tend to struggle in conventional learning environments which empahsise skills that boys are not strong at
Psychological Argument
if the biological and psychological arguments for the disadvantage of boys in schools were true, what would we see?
different outcomes in same-sex schools, but boys tend to perform the same in same-sex schools.
ways we think girls and boys should conform to appropriate roles, behaviors, and characteristics
gender scripts
- All boys are (equally) disadvantaged
- Boys are poorer at reading and writing that girls
- Boys lack role models, especially for academic behaviours and attitudes
- Female behaviour or ways of learning are expected at schools and this does not fit boys
- Doing well at school is stigmatising for boys, so they avoid it
Weaver-Hightower (2010) notes common myths about boys and education
To counteract the myths that all boys assume a hyper-masculine identity and struggle in school, we can think about other types of masculinities such as,
inclusive masculinity, socially just masculinity, positive and/or healthy masculinity
the hidden curriculum is outside of
the official curriculum in school
Women were seen to be more obtuse and less sensitive to pain which people concluded that it meant:
they didn’t have discriminating tastes or critical thinking skills
Social Construction theory of boys performing poorly at school
boys are culturally conditioned in school to take up/act out or reject various aspects of masculinity