...different subjects and their tendency to study different subjects. In recent years, females are attaining more than males while males are underachieving. This may be caused by factors outside school. Outside factors has caused girls to outperforming boys is due to girls attitudes towards education as the female expectations have changed. Many women are now looking beyond the housewife role. This is supported by Sue Sharpe discovered that girls priorities had changed from marriage to having a good job. This is because there has been a genderquake, Wilkinson argues that females have improved their educational performance due to fundamental changes in attitudes towards female role in society. Therefore there is a more positive attitude towards education for women and they use this as a means of improving chances at work. This shows how outside school factors influence differences in achievement as Francis and Skelton’s studies can show that many girls are acquiring for jobs that require degree level qualifications therefore girls strive to work harder at home to ensure they do well in order to achieve a well-paid job. However, Jackson argues that its not only boys who are failing, girls are too as there are many ladettes who disrupt lessons to make themselves feel popular, and feel like a genius when they do get something right. Another outside factor that has cause girls to achieve higher is due to the changes of the job market. There has been increasing job opportunities for women in...
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...Differential Progress of Boys and Girls. Gender and differential achievement is a major factor that influences how well people do in school. In the 1980s sociologists spoke about how girls are underachieving due to education being controlled and dominated by men, (Spender, 1983) but more recently years there have been worries that it is the boys who are falling behind. In recent statistics it is shown that girls are gaining better results at GCSE and also are more likely to go on to higher education. The curriculum has also become very gender bias, for example certain subjects are seen to be for either boys or girls. For instance girls tend to go for communication subjects such as English and Sociology whereas boys tend to go for technical ones such as Maths and Physics. It is said by many sociologists that the different achieving levels can be due to factors occurring in the school. Firstly boys may be underachieving due to the feminisation of education, more often than no there is few male role models inside the school environment which does not set a good example for males as they see education as feminine. For instance Melanie Phillips (2002) talks about how society in general is becoming much more feminist, which is why boys find education less easy to engage with and they begin to associate success with femininity which can cause an upsurge in anti school subcultures. Also it is said that teachers generally have lower expectations of boys. These teacher expectations...
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...adequately for work. This is because state control of education discourages efficiency, competition and choice. Outline some of the ways in which government educational policies may have affected social class differences in educational achievement? Marketisation brought in a change in selection policies, it brought in a funding formula that gives the school the same amount of funds for each pupil, also exam league tables that rank each school according to its exam performance and make no allowance for the level of ability of its pupils. But lastly a competition among schools to attract pupils to the school with the highest grades and make them want to do better so they get accepted into that school. Explain what is meant by the term ‘meritocracy’? Meritocracy means that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve, that rewards are based on ability and effort, and that those who gain the...
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...will be looking at different ethnic minorities and how well they are doing in school. Although most schools are seen as multicultural, you can see clear differences between ethnic minorities. Statistics show that clearly some ethnicities are doing poorer than others. At the moment Black Caribbean boys are achieving the least amount of GCSE A*-C grades whereas more than 50% of Chinese girls are achieving the most GCSE’s. There are many factors as to why some ethnicities do better than others. Ethnicity can have a major affect on your achievement but other things like- social class, gender and location can also play a part in how well you do. Success or failure can be influenced by what happens within the school and classroom. If teachers have low expectations of an ethnic minority it may affect the actual progress of a pupil. This is known as the self fulfilling prophecy. If a teacher labels most Bangladeshi boys as ‘not very bright and able’. The teacher has labeled the group and made a prediction about them. Because the teacher has low expectation, he/she will except below average homework. Also teachers will not encourage the pupils as they are already labeled as ‘failures’. As the teacher has not helped the Bangladeshi boys they would have made the prediction true. So this shows that teachers labels may lead to a self fulfilling prophecy through which the students educational achievement is affected, for example they may be placed in lower sets and receive less encouragement...
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...argue that Britain is the most unequal society in Western Europe, Research conducted by Sutton Trust from 2010 suggests that poverty affects children’s ability to do well in schools, the study indicates that just 45 per cent of children from poorest fifth of families were ready to read daily by the age of three compared to 78 per cent of children from richest fifth of families. This proves that British society is unequal; there are social groups that have access to better standards of living than others (Morning Star Online 2010) In order for Inequality to take place, some people need to have more than others, creating boundaries in society that stop some people from getting equal status despite their work and effort. There are several ways of measuring social class, subjective method simply is based on people’s perception of what social class they should be in. However it is quite vague as some people may be middle class and have a lot of money whereas other might have education, lifestyle and manners of the middle class but are poor. Where objective method takes things into account like occupation, unemployment, income, education and so on therefore it is more reliable way of measuring social class. In order to measure social class effectively, stratification is needed to enable evaluation of inequalities; best way to do it is consider morbidity and mortality factors as unemployment or income are not always accurate way of measuring it. Taking someone’s occupation into an account...
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...busy with work, they both try to spend as much time as a family together as possible for example family dinners, and Saturday night movies. Jordon looks forward to these quality times, as he knows his parents are mostly busy. Jordon likes to play with his parents but understands when they are busy. He loves to play with his bike in the garden, and also the trampoline. He also enjoys his favourite blue toy car and his building blocks. Jordon’s hobby is playing football with his father. Jordon does not suffer from any medical issues or diseases; however he is allergic to egg which means that the nursery cook and staff need to ensure that they are extra careful with what they feed him. Overall this isn’t a great concern and other than that he is a healthy boy. Task 1: 1. Education through play: Schools & nurseries offer a wide range of services in order to stimulate the children. It also gives them a chance to interact with others whilst learning and gaining new skills. The most important and one of the main services is education through play. From my experience at Childs Play Nursery which we visited as a school trip, I found out that for young children to enjoy learning they have to physically engage in the activities. This is aimed at all the children who attend Childs Play Nursery as they are given fun, enjoyable and a range of different ways which include educational but also non-education activities. This could include numerous games including counting or learning...
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