Role And Function Of Education Feminist

Question 1

What are the 4 roles and functions of education according to feminists?

Answer 1

1. To socialise students into a culture of inequality through the hidden curriculum
2. To reinforce the ideologies that prepare students to accept the patriarchal world of work
3. To reinforce and reproduce a culture of inequality through the transmission of patriarchal values
4. Reinforces gender role socialisation

Question 2

Who said to socialise students into a culture of inequality through the hidden curriculum?

Answer 2

• Skelton

Question 3

What did Skelton say about socialising students into a culture of inequality through the hidden curriculum?

Answer 3

• hidden curriculum is responsible for perpetuating gender differences in subject choice
• transmits traditional gender roles through teachers attitudes swaying subject choices, pupils being persuaded by teachers, and the education system promoting certain subjects as suitable for different sexes
• teachers may also make assumptions about the different abilities and interests of students and encourage them accordingly

Question 4

Who said to reinforce the ideologies that prepare students to accept the patriarchal world of work?

Answer 4

• Kelly
• colley

Question 5

What did Kelly say about reinforcing ideologies that prepare students to accept the patriarchal world of work?

Answer 5

• suggests two reasons why science is seen as a more masculine subject
• science is packaged as a boys subjects with textbooks containing pictures of boys and examples that would interest boys and boys dominate science classrooms by shouting out answers and grabbing equipment first

Question 6

What did colley say about reinforcing the ideologies that prepare students to accept the patriarchal world of work?

Answer 6

• school subject choices are affected by three things: perception of gender roles (extent to which they have been socialised into typically masculine or feminine identities), subject preferences (choose subjects based on their perception of the type of tasks and activities required in the subject) and learning environment (subject choices influenced by whether or not the school is single sex or mixed sex)

Question 7

Who said to reinforce and reproduce a culture of inequality through the transmission of patriarchal values?

Answer 7

• Heaton and Lawson

Question 8

What did Heaton and Lawson say about reinforcing and reproducing a culture of inequality through the transmission of patriarchal values?

Answer 8

• hidden curriculum is a major source of gender socialisation and operates in five ways: books and textbooks, female students feeling uncomfortable in certain subjects, teachers expectations, patriarchal curriculum and lack of positive role models
• highlights how these subtle and often unintentional aspects of school life contribute to gender role socialisation, reinforcing idea that the education system transmits patriarchal values
• suggest that despite formal efforts towards equality, hidden curriculum continues to play a significant role in shaping students understanding of gender roles and expectations

Question 9

Who said reinforces gender role socialisation?

Answer 9

• spender

Question 10

What did Spender say about reinforces gender role socialisation?

Answer 10

• described women as invisible in education
• male based curriculum, differential teacher attention and reinforcement of gender inequalities through the hidden curriculum
• education system through both its formal curriculum and its less overt hidden curriculum, contributed to the marginalisation of women and the reinforcement of traditional gender roles and inequalities