Gender internal Factor Flashcards
(12 cards)
Equal opportunity policies
Jo Boler (1988) - Introduction of equal opportunities as to why there was a change
Positive role models in school
In recent years there has been an increase in female teachers and and headteachers within schools
Boys poor literacy EXPL
State boys underachievement is due to
- parents spend less time reading to boys
- Leasure culture doesn’t develop language
Boys poor literacy EX
Playing for success
- 33 top football clubs opened study support helped 20,000+
- reading championships uses male role model
Boys poor literacy EVAL
Narrowing equal opportunities down to failing boys ignores class disparities and ethnic minorities groups
Feminisation of education EXPL
boys have fallen behind because education has become feminized BBC 2006
Feminisation of education EX
Sewell
Swell 2006
challenged the 1950s patriarchy and this is not ‘a mans world’
thrown the boys out with the bath water
Feminisation of education EVAL
coursework was largely abolished in 2015 but girls are still performing better
Teachers attention
Teacher attention is geared more towards boys bc of their bad behaviour and they often leave girls alone bc they’re seen as getting on with it.
What are hyper-hetrosexual identities
girls are heavily invested in their appearance and looking ‘desirable’
teachers saw girls who did this were distracted from education
Symbolic violence
Bourdieu harm done by denying someones symbolic capital
Gendered subject images
subjects which have been typically dominated by specific genders ie science typically male dominated especially since teachers are likely to be male
