Looking specifically at gendered roles in education
Stereotyping and changing attitudes Widening participation (WP) – Further
Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) sectors
Consider the move towards raising the age of compulsory education and the effect on HE
Today’s Session
Students will be able to:
Compose a list of inequalities and stereotypes in compulsory education and demonstrate the sources of such inequality
Identify gendered issues in the 14-19 Education and Skills Implementation Plan
Learning Outcomes – 1st Session
Workplace stereotypes - girls
Workplace stereotypes - boys
Boys’ lack of achievement in schools (Ingram, 2009)
Girls’ and boys’ behaviour – social expectation and teacher authority (Shilela, 2002)
How families instill stereotyping through their values and beliefs (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1977)
Gender Stereotyping pre HE
Post-It Task:
Compose a list of gender stereotypes in boys and girls and demonstrate the sources of the inequality
Compulsory education
See handout - 3 references to gender
Page 13, 1.5 Page 71, 4.25 Page 75, 4.35
Looking at 14-19 Plan
Task:
Look at the handout and consider the three points raised from items in the 14-19 Plan
Extending compulsory education in England to age
19
Identify that from birth, the home is a site for the reproduction of stereotypes
Social and peer groups often cement these stereotypes through childhood (Reay, 1998)
By the age of 14, these ideas are often ‘entrenched’ (DfES, 2005: 75)
Educational success then encroaches on further/higher education options
Re-cap
Bourdieu, P., and Passeron, J-C., 1977. Reproduction in education, society and culture. London: Sage.
Department for Education and Skills, 2005 [Online] . 14-19 Education and Skills Implementation Plan. Available at: https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/_arc_Postcompulsory/Page1/UOB%202037%202005 [Accessed: 07.10.12].
Gorard, S., et al., 1999. Reappraising the apparent underachievement at school. Gender and Education. Vol 11, No 4, p441-454.
References 1
Ingram, N., 2009. Working class boys, educational success and the misrecognition of working class culture. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol 30, No 4, p421-434.
Reay, D., 1998. Class work: mother’s involvement in their children’s primary schooling. London: UCL Press.
Shilela, A., 2002. Dialogue with difference: teaching for equality in primary schools. In: Moyles, J., and Robinson, G., (Eds). Beginning teaching, beginning learning (2nd ed). Buckingham: Open University Press.
References 2