Gender and Education
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- Gender and Education
- Facts about Gender and Education
- Girls get better results in primary school national curriculum tests (SATS).
- Girls ae more likely to pass A-Levels.
- More women go to University than men in the UK.
- Girls get better results in nearly every subject at GCSE.
- Gender and Subject Choice
- Girls tend to take essay based A- levels and boys opt for technical ones.
- Teachers for subjects tend to be gendered i.e. most maths teachers are male.
- Subject choice is often influenced by gender socialisation.
- Parental expectations may encourage students to follow what they see as traditional normal choices for their gender, there's pressure to conform to a social norm.
- Boys Underachievement
- Boys may be having an identity crisis
- The rise of female independence
- There's been a decline in the breadwinner role for men.
- Interpretivists say teachers have lower expectations of boys
- The feminisation of teaching means boys don't have as many role models in the classroom.
- Reading can be seen as 'girly', so 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 underachievement by having an anti-school subculture where education doesn't matter and where having laugh was more important.
- Mary Fuller- Working class black girls were given a negative label in school, so they rejected their label and worked hard in school to prove it wrong
- Mac an Ghaill- Boys joined a macho lad subculture because of a crisis in masculinity
- Facts about Gender and Education
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