Education

• How does Education enforce Gender Roles

  • Imitation of role models - may socialise students into their gender identity through how female/male teachers/older students are expected to behave 
  • Best - many books portrayed stereotypical gender roles
• What is the National Curriculum (formal)

  Sets out compulsory subjects to be taught in schools

  Gillborn & Coard - believed the national curriculum was ethnocentric (enforce dominance of british values)
• What is the Hidden Curriculum (informal)

  Sets values and principles to students involuntarily e.g. importance of dress code, school hierarchy, respect authority etc

  • If a pupil breaks formal or informal social controls they receive negative sanctions or reward conformity 
  • Francis, boys were punished more harshly and teachers were more sympathetic towards girls