Feminist

• liberal feminist

  there's been steady improvement in girls experience of school and girls achievement
• Radical feminist

  maintains gender inequality in education

  gendered language

  gendered roles

  gendered stereotypes
• The hidden curriculum operates in 5 ways

  1.books and textbooks

  2.boys colonise the space

  3.teacher expectations

  4.patriarchal curriculum

  5.lack of positive role models
• Overall argument

  education is an agent of secondary socialisation that helps to reinforce PATRIARCHY