Differential Achievement - Gender - INSIDE OF SCHOOL FACTORS Flashcards

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Kelly

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Claimed that science subjects were packaged for boys.

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Burns and Bracey

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According to Burns and Bracey (2001) girls put more effort into homework and unlike boys are prepared to draft and redraft assignments.

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Epstein

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“Boys will be boys discourse,” where teachers view boys as naturally clever but lazy, noisy, and difficult to motivate.

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Willis

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working-class boys, or “lads,” often formed anti-school subcultures, rejecting education as irrelevant to the manual labour jobs they felt destined for, reinforcing their position in the labour market.

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