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• evals of male underachievement

  • are male teacher really needed
  • moral panic about boys
• are male teachers needed

  Francis (2006) found that 2/3 7-8 yr olds belived that teacher gender did not matter.
• are male teachers really needed

  kead (2008) is critical of the idea that the culture of primary schools is being feminine and that only male teachers cen exert firm discipline that boys nedd to achieve
• are male teacher really needed

  Kead studied the type of language teacher use to express disapproval of work and behaviour. she found two types.

  discplinary discourse - the teacher authority is made explict and visible eg) through shouting

  liberal discourse - the teacher authority is implict and invisible the child centred discourse involved pusedo adultification where the teacher speaks to student if they were an adult and expects the to be sensible and respectful.
• are male teachers really needed

  the disciplinary discourse is associated with masculnity and liberal discourse is assoicated with feminity. In keads study of 51 primary school teachers she found most use masculine disciplinary discourse to control pupils behaviour
• are male teachers really needed

  kead stated as most teachers were just as likely as male to use a masculine discourse to control pupils behavoiur disproves that only male teacher can provide the strict class culturw boys need to achieve
• moral panic about boys

  citics of feminism argue that polices to promote girls education are not needed anymore. girls have succeded at the expense of boys who are the new disadvantaged
• moral panic about boys

  Ringworm (2013) said that these views have contributed to a moral panic about failing boys, this panic reflects the fear that underachieving w/c boys will grow up to be a dangerous unemployable underclass which threatens social stability.
• moral panic about boys

  Ringrose argues that this moral panic is caused by a major shift in educational polices which are now concerned with raising male achievement