Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Gender and Education
- Female
- Internal factors
- Challenging stereotypes
- Removal of gender
stereotypes removes
barrier to achievement
- Teacher attention
- Franics says boys get picked on and that
teachers have low expectations of them
- GCSEs/ coursework
- GCSEs 1988
- Gorard says coursework favours girls
- Equal opportunites policies
- GIST (Girls into science and technology)
- National Curriculum 1988
- So boys and girls generally study the same subjects
- External factors
- Changes in Family
- Increase in divorce rates
- Smaller families
- More time to work
- Rise of lone parent families
- Women know they have to be independent
- Changes in women's employment
- Rise of service sector which
has skills associated with
females
- Females work harder to get these jobs
- Girls changing ambitions
- Sharpe
- Unstructured interviews of
girls attitudes to education
and family
- 1970s girls thought if they were
intelligent, they would be seen as
unattractive, prioritised love over a
career
- 1990s girls wanted a career
- Male
- Internal factors
- Teachers have lower expectations of boys
- Creates self fulfilling prophecies
- Formation of laddish subcultures
- Francis
- As girls move into masculine
subjects, boys are laddish to prove
they are different to girls
- Hidden Curriculum
- Associated with femininity
- Punctuality, revision etc
- External factors
- Boys and literacy
- Their leisure activities do not
improve their reading e.g. sport
- Parents spend less time reading with their sons
- Mothers read more than
fathers, so they associate
it with femininity
- Changes in job market
- Deindustrialisation
- Little point in working
hard if there are few
jobs for them
- Masculinity
- Overconfident
- Surprised when they fail
exams and put it down to
bad luck