Can you tweet or draw a diagram to show the key issues impacting ethnicity and achievement trends?
Perhaps try a venn diagram looking at internal/external factors

What does 'gender' refer to?

Wider social trends - how have attitudes to gender changed in the past 50 years?

Do you feel your gender has
affected your education?

Here are the general trends:
- Girls do better @ primary level
- Girls do better @secondary level
- Girls more likely to pass A Levels
- Women more likely to attend HE

These trends used to be the opposite...so what's changed?

Mitsos & Browne (1998) - teaching has been feminised:
- women are more likely to be classroom teachers (particularly in primary education)
- less stereotyping in teaching resources
- National Curriculum has forced girls into 'male' subjects

Swann & Graddol (1993) - girls = more quality interaction/help from teachers vs. boys = behaviour management from teachers

Jackson (1998) - schools label boys negatively = self-fulfilling prophecy

Socialisation - girls are better suited to a classroom

Equal Pay/Sex Discrimination Acts: more equal opportunities in wider society = changing values

Sharpe (1994) girls priorities have changed since the 1970s, want to be financially independent

Feminist movement = change in expectations

Labour market changes = growth in service, decline in 'male' jobs

Family structure = more equal roles, families later in life after career

Wider social change - the economy/job opportunities

Identity crisis over male 'role' and increased unemployment

Interpretivists = teachers have lower expectations (labelling)

Mac an Ghaill 1994: different types of anti-school subculture

Lack of role models - link to family and household

Roles within schools - lack of male teachers

http://www.ted.com/talks/ali_carr_chellman_gaming_to_re_engage_boys_in_lear...

Is there a 'whole' picture of change?

Subject by subject - what's the pattern likely to be?
Why is this?

Archer (2006) - focus on boys means we aren't paying attention to where girls still have problems. Intersection with ethnicity and labelling

Primary socialisation:

The school:

The economy:

'Motherism' link to SCLY1 http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=guardian+motherism&source=newssear...

CGP: 28-29
Harlambos & Holborn: 55-57
Collins Yr1: 41-5