Feminist

• What is the general feminist belief about education?

  education help to reproduce patriarchy
• What does Becky Francis say about boys?

  Boys dominate the classroom and outdoor space

  therefore they attract more teacher attention

  Boys are also louder than girls
• What do feminists believe about the hidden curriculum?

  Believes the hidden curriculum is also used to reproduce patriarchy eg. more men studied in history and lack of female figures in textbooks
• What does Sue Lees argue?

  There are double standards for boys and girls in education
• What are double standards?

  Girls are expected to be better behaved and quieter than boys in the classroom, punished more for not fitting into norms. Also boys seen to have triumphs between peers but girls are often shamed
• What do Heaton and Lawson argue?

  School teaches stereotypes through gendered subject choices and textbooks where less women and women are often seen as a motherly figure
• Evaluation:

  • girls perform better than boys
  • policies like GIST and WISE aim to overcome this
  • functionalist believe in meritocracy and there is not inequalities.