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Gender and Education
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Sociology
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04/29/2009
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Explain the Term " Peer-group status"

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Being SEEN as "BIG" or important in the eyes of freinds and other people around you!
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Suggest 3 ways in which teaching might be altered to FAVOUR BOYS?
 Definition
  • Schools should be made more.... "MASCULINE"
  • "boys will be boys" .... solution lies with setting CLEAR TARGETS for boys with strong disipline however still respecting their masculinity.
  • "Boys @ Risk" ,, they believe boys seem tough and hard on the outside but are sensitive really on the inside! Schools need to be sensitive,appreciate and provide opportunities.
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Who discovered.... that girls priorities were changing?

 

She did a survey in 1976 then repeated it in 1994

1976- Love,Marriage,Husbands,Children, Jobs/Careers.

1994- Job/Career- being able to Support themselves!

 Definition
Sue Sharpe
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Who did a study to show that boys were fatalistic by accepting failure.. as inevitable and so developed anti-Educational Coping Stragies. (Ways of getting by=Boredom)

*Laddish Behaviour*

 Definition
Willis(1997)
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