Gender and Education
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- Created on: 13-05-18 12:17
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- Gender and education
- Facts about Gender and education
- Girls get better results in primary school national curriculum tests
- Girls get better results in nearly every subject at GCSE
- Girls are more likely to pass their A-levels
- More women go to university than men in the UK
- Boys underacheivement
- Boys may be having an identity crisis
- The rise of female independence
- There's been a decline in the breadwinner role for men
- Interpretevists say teachers have lower expectations of boys
- The feminisation of teaching means boys dont have as many role models in the classroom
- Reading can be seen as 'girly' boys who avoid books may not develop vital communication skills
- Boys may be having an identity crisis
- Subcultures
- Willis - the lads rejected school and coped with their underacheivement by having a subculture where education didn't matter and where having a laugh was more important
- Mac and Ghail - boys join a macho lad subculture because of a crisis of masculinity
- Fuller - the black working class girls joined a subculture to prove their negative label wrong
- Gender and subject choice
- Girls tend to take essay based A-levels and boys opt for technical ones
- Subject choice is often influenced by gender socialisation
- Parental expectations may encourage students to follow what they see as traditional normal choice for their gender there's pressure to conform to a social norm
- Teachers for subjects tend to be gendered i.e. most maths teachers are male
- Facts about Gender and education
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