feminism

• LIBERAL

  • march of progress
  • girls now strive for academic sucess
  • there is improvement but not enough.

  girls are now out performing boys so the system must not be patriachal.
• LIBERAL - SUE SHARPE


  girls wishes in the future

  • 1970s - prioritized family
  • 1990s- wanted a career and education

  shows how girls are becoming more independent and want to make a success for themselves
• LIBERAL - HEATON & LAWTON


  the hidden curriculum (bowles and gintis) clearly shows patriachy
• SKELTON & FRANCIS


  when observing primary school play, peer groups were gendered with boys playing sports, girls playing house etc (socialisation effects) and saw that girls were not allowed to play with the boys
• double standards


  girls who are loud and dominate the classroom are seen as attention seekers where as loud boys are 'normal' and expected
• RADICAL - BAYNARD

  • school research shows that sexual harassment boy -> girl is not taken serious and often said to just be a 'joke'
• RADICAL - BAYNARD


  verbal comments made by boys are ignored.
• RADICAL


  the classroom is seen as a training ground of the male gaze and boys sexism
• RADICAL


  experience harassment in school is shown to discourage girls in schools; not attending, giving up
• RADICAL 


  education still favours boys over girls
• EVALUATIONS OF FEMINISTS

  • education isnt the issue, high achieving girls will get into good jobs but then be effected by the gender pay gap.
  • the teaching industry is becoming female dominant; so the ideologies of the female teachers will begin to become present in the classroom