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Outline and assess
sociological explanations
for changes in educational
attainment by females
- Theories
- Feminist
- Radical Feminists dispute chnage
- Primary schools may be
more feminine but males
dominate top positions
- Girls progress in education
is not replicated in the job
market
- Curriculum still based in favour of white male
knowledge
- Radical Feminists dispute chnage
- Marxism
- The ruling class is still ahead of the
working class.
- The ruling class is still ahead of the
working class.
- Functionalism
- Education gves you the skills to fulfil
your role in society, equality of
opportunity
- Education gves you the skills to fulfil
your role in society, equality of
opportunity
- Interactionists
- It's down to the interaction between teacher and pupil. The
majority of primary teachers are female, this could allow girls to
identify with the teachers, while boys would find it more difficult
- It's down to the interaction between teacher and pupil. The
majority of primary teachers are female, this could allow girls to
identify with the teachers, while boys would find it more difficult
- Feminist
- Attainment Figures
- Prior to 1985 girls were underperforming
- DSCF (2007) - Gender is
mainly the result of boys
' poorer literacy and
language skills
- 2014: 80% of boys reached the expected level in
reading at age 11 compared with 88% of girls
- 2014 - 59% boys achieved A*-C in
GCSE compared to 73% of girls
- From 1985 to 2007 girls were not
performing as well in maths and
science
- Girls from the highest
social class scored 44%
more points than the girks
in the lower classes
- 2006 - three quarters of women are in
employment
- Prior to 1985 girls were underperforming
- Studies
- Sharpe - priorities have changed since
1970s
- Spender (1983) - teachers treat boys
and girls differently
- Coley (1998) - different gender
choices in option choices
- Carol Jackson (2006) - Ladette
culture, comes form the
pressure of girls to preform in
examination
- Sewell (2006) - schools
celebrate qualities that are
often associated with girls
- McVeigh (2001) - gender is much less
important than class and ethnicity
- Fuller - the gennder gap is
greater amongst black
Caribbean pupils
- Epstein - boys get bullied if
they do well in education
- Sharpe - priorities have changed since
1970s
- Girls have a 'bedroom' culture, staying in ad talking
with their friends, this enhances their literacy and
language ability
- Mothers are more likely to
read their children making it
seem like a feminine activity
- Girls have a 'bedroom' culture, staying in ad talking
with their friends, this enhances their literacy and
language ability
- Other influencing factors
- Class
- Ideal pupil is a white upper class
male
- Has 5X the effect on
educational achievemnet
than anything else
- Middle class parents are more able to manipulate the
school system to get the best for their children
- Ideal pupil is a white upper class
male
- Ethnicity
- Ideal pupil is a white upper class
male
- Black pupils
- More likely to be excluded
- Boys reject school and education
while girls just reject school
- Praised less, told off more
- 1.5 more likely than British pupils to be
labelled as having behaviour problems
- More likely to be excluded
- Chinese pupils are the highest achieving in GCSE level
- Gypsy/Romany and Irish travellers score least at
GCSE level
- Ideal pupil is a white upper class
male
- Class
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