Topic 5 - Gender and Educational Achievement Flashcards
4 main external factors that explain girls achievement
Family changes: early socialisation - dolls benefit English related subjects
Changes in Family structure - women now need to be more economically independent
Feminism
Changes in the economy
What did Norman in 1988 think the reason for girl’s underachievement in education was caused by?
The fact in their early socialisation they were encouraged to play with dolls influencing then to be carers
How did Gorard argue that the introduction of coursework helped girls?
They were better organised and planned better allowing them to do better in the coursework
What did Francis in 2005 argue how teachers thought girls were like?
Saw girls as relatively quiet, obedient and conformist compared to boys
Because of this girls were penalised more heavily than boys
Reasons for male underachievement?
Poor male literacy (reading is girly)
Feminisation of education
Shortage of male primary school teachers
Decline in manufacturing
Laddish subcultures
How did Stanworth in 1983 argue that male teachers hindered girls achievements?
They had expectations on girls which stopped their achievement
External factors helping girls achieve
Changes in family
Feminism
Changes in labour market
Individualisation of society
Internal factors helping girls achieve
Equal opportunities policies
GCSE & Coursework
Reading in school
Teacher labelling and attention
Positive role models in schools
What is the crisis of masculinity?
The shift in our societal structure that has changed what it means to be masculine
What did Jackson find in 2006 about masculinity?
Based on interviews with 203 students in 8 schools, being laddish is key to being cool - rejecting school
What did Mac an Ghalil find out about masculinity?
Due to a rapid declining in traditional jobs boys are unable to provide and therefore have a low self esteem
This means they do not know how to gain a sense of masculinity and the solution to this is to gain it through laddish behaviour
Factors affecting reasons for subject choice between genders
Gender socialisation
Subject images/ peer pressure
Teacher expectations
