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Feminism and education - Coggle Diagram
Feminism and education
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Feminism and education
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emphasise patterns of inequality and show how patriarchy is conveyed culturally and is reproduced through education
Schools continue to create gender inequalty, even thoiugh they promote equal opportunities and as a result, feminists see education as an agent of gender socialisation
Hidden curriculum
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McCabe: studied bookks published between 1900 and 2000 found that 31% had female central characters and even books about animals were usually male animals
Best: females are underrepresented in textbooks, particularly science ones
When females do appear, they are portrayed in a stereotypical way
Authors and publishers made effort to use more powerful female figures in books, which increases female aspirations
Kelly and Culley: Literature portrays women as being depenant on men. Women are invisible in science. Number of women feel uncomfortable studying science. Boys take over in ict lessons and exclude girls, teachers rarely intervene.
Heaton and lawson: some teachers still had sexist views such as getting boys to move furniture and getting girls to clean
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Aspects of feminism
Liberal feminism
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Girls have had better exam results than boys since 80's, so if the system is patriarchal, it fails boys.
However stanworth says that there is more expectation for boys and boys are pushed more to go onto higher education than females
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Radical feminism
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boys are getting more attention because of boisterous behaviour and textbooks include patriarchal innuendos.
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Kat Banyard looked at sexual harassment in education and how it is not treated as seriously as other forms of bullying, and therefore argues that this only reinforces patriarchal behaviour.
Marxist feminists
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blame capitalism on the way girls are socialised to take care of men, the home, and the next generation of workers. Marxist feminists see education as supporting such views and educate children in this mind
Sue Sharpe’s famous ethnographic study Just Like a Girl illustrated that girls’ attitudes have changed over the years, and now their priorities are a career and financial independence, thus going against the opinion of Marxist feminists.
Black feminists
Black feminists point out that not all girls have the same experiences and therefore cannot be generalised as women from ethnic minority backgrounds are often stereotyped.
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