gender and subject choice Flashcards
(12 cards)
1
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Skelton et al
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- boys more likely to pursue science based subjects
- girls ‘caring subjects’ e.g. food technology
2
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gender socialisation
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- canalisation encourages early gender socialisation which plays part in late choices
3
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Lobban - 1974
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- gender stereotyping in books
4
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Best - 1983
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- repeated research and identified very little change
5
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subject/ careers counselling
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- careers advisors, as a result of own socialisation often channel students into stereotypical subjects
- biggest impact is upon vocational courses
6
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Colley - 1988 (subject image)
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- gender perceptions of different subjects are important influences on subject choice with arts and humanities seen as feminine and science and technology as masculine
7
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Skelton
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- males and females may tend to be drawn to different subjects due to their own ideas of what is appropriate for their gender
8
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Paecher
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- gendering subjects e.g. girls taking P.E may be seen as ‘unfeminine’ and ‘butch’ and they were stigmatised as such
9
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Kelly - 1987
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- found boys dominate science classrooms, grabbing equipment first and ridiculing girls
- research also shows gender stereotyping has meant the invisibility of girls in science, including stereotyping women in science textbooks.
10
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Colley - 1998
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- science and ICT were seen as part of masculine domain
- she suggested the challenging of the curriculum of some subjects can alter its gender identity and therefore those who study it
11
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Francis (gender identity)
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- failure to adopt gendered behaviours may lead to marginalisation and bullying
12
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education as patriarchal
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- gendered verbal behaviour: boys dominate classrooms and ridiculing girls
- they take up teacher’s time and attention
- they are verbally abusive to girls. use contemptuous/misogynistic language
- girls help boys
- teacher have different expectations of both
- girls likely to be punished harshly if they don’t behave
- ‘boys will be boys’
