The Gendered Classroom Flashcards

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edward clarke was a harvard-trained physician who suggested that it was not proper to educate boys and girls the same way because…

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…boys enter the world more developed than girls and were able to take on education.

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according to edward clarke, key physical features were seen to contribute to…

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…educational success based on height, weight, and muscle growth

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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?

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menopause

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Hill and Lynch (1983) proposed that beginning with adolescence, girls and boys face increased pressure to…

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…conform to culturally sanctioned gender roles because of puberty and attraction to the opposite sex.

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Research suggests that gender intensification is influenced more by…

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…family gendered roles that by the influence of peer groups

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Eate et. al. (2016) Many suggest that school environments favour girls due to…

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…the over-representation of women as teachers and their feminization of education where women’s learning style is implemented.

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boys’ and girls’ brains are sufficiently different that there are identifiable and innate skills sets unique to each gender

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Biological Argument

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boys tend to struggle in conventional learning environments which empahsise skills that boys are not strong at

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Psychological Argument

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if the biological and psychological arguments for the disadvantage of boys in schools were true, what would we see?

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different outcomes in same-sex schools, but boys tend to perform the same in same-sex schools.

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ways we think girls and boys should conform to appropriate roles, behaviors, and characteristics

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gender scripts

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  • 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
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Weaver-Hightower (2010) notes common myths about boys and education

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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,

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inclusive masculinity, socially just masculinity, positive and/or healthy masculinity

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the hidden curriculum is outside of

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the official curriculum in school

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Women were seen to be more obtuse and less sensitive to pain which people concluded that it meant:

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they didn’t have discriminating tastes or critical thinking skills

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Social Construction theory of boys performing poorly at school

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boys are culturally conditioned in school to take up/act out or reject various aspects of masculinity

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What’s in the hidden curriculum?

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  • teaches behaviour patterns, social processes, social norms, and beliefs
  • gender regime
  • heteronormative
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What do gendered expectations do to children?

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Heavily limits children
girls: low self-esteem, poor body image, eating disorder
boys: poor academic skills

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How does gendered expectations limit children in their adult life?

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limits career choices, higher rate of suicide among men, and violence against women.