Education (Boys Achievement and Education) Flashcards
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What is out of school factors for boys achievement?
Literacy
What are in schools factors for boys achievement?
DFS
Decline of masculine employment
Feminisation of Education
Subcultures (Laddish)
Literacy - the creation of the…..
Gender Construct
What did Norman (1988) find?
Norman (1988) found parents are less likely to read to their sons, seeing it as a ‘feminine activity’
What did Edwards and David (2000) find?
Edwards and David (2000) found mother’s speak to baby girls more frequently than baby boys
How does boys literacy benefit girls?
This puts girls at an advantage because the classroom is solely a linguist environment
Research shows by age 6, girls read more books than boys and continue to do so for the rest of their lives.
What gender stereotypes to parents hold towards boys?
Gender stereotypes - held by parents also mean that boys are given more time to run around and play and ‘let off steam’
Parents are more likely to be dismissive if their boys are in trouble at school often seeing this as just them being ‘typical boys’.
What are policies that tackle the issues of boys achievements and what do they do?
(1997) Reading Champions- uses male role models celebrating their own reading interests
National literacy strategy 1998 – initiative aimed at tackling problems at primary school. It involved a daily “literacy hour”.
Dads and son’s campaign - getting dads more involved in sons education
What did the 2011 EA do?
Education Act 2011 – Michael Gove the then Education Secretary argued a return of more traditional subjects and a reduction in coursework. The reforms phased in exam elements into BTec qualifications. – This can be used as a key evaluation point of girls changes in attainment.
What are boys socialised to see their future roles as and how has this changed?
Boys are socialised to see their future roles as a ‘breadwinner’ but the social world has changed –
- the decline of the manufacturing industry and the rise of long-term unemployment
- new jobs in the service sector are frequently part-time and desk based (largely suited to women)
What is a Crisis in masculinity – Mac an Ghaill (1994)?
Crisis in masculinity – Mac an Ghaill (1994) boys lack confidence in themselves and have low self-esteem in the classroom. They have doubts of what route they should take in society.
Feminisation of education : what were Tony Sewell’s findings?
Tony Sewell - school curriculum and lessons do not nurture masculine traits – (e.g. competition and leadership)
Subjects such as P.E. may only be taught twice a week
Shortage of male teachers – primary 16% male
What did Rothermel (1999) say?
Among home educated children, boys are as successful as girls
What did Abraham (1995) say?
Found deviant boys were more popular with teachers than academic boys and girls
How do boys outnumber girls in detentions etc?
According to DfES 2018. The number of boys kept in detention outnumber girls by 4 to 1 and 83% of all exclusions are boys.
What did Epstein (1998) find?
Found hardworking boys tended to be assigned homophobic names
What did Francis (2001) say?
Boys were more likely to be concerned than girls about being labelled as ‘swot’s’
What did Paul Willis (1977) say regarding laddish subcultures?
Working-class culture promotes that masculinity is being tough and doing manual work - In contrast school work may be seen as effeminate.
Barber (1994), Identified three main types of underachieving male subculture, these were?
A. Disappointed boys were not inclined to do much at school outside the maintenance of their peer group relationships.
B. Disaffected boys disliked school but used it as an arena for their general disaffection (bad behaviour, in other words).
C. Disappeared boys attended school as little as possible.
