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AS SOCIOLOGY COURSEWORK
Gender differences in educational achievement:
underachievement of boys
Hypothesis (94)
Since the mid 1990’s there has been much concern about the under performance of boys compared to girls. ... 8 per cent of boys compared to 53. ... As a result I am aim to assess the extend to which ‘teacher expectation’ and ‘anti-school subculture’ are influencing the underachievement of boys at GCSE level. I have chosen this topic because I am particular interested in why boys are currently underachieving in education, yet they are the ones over taking the world of work.
Context and Concepts (400)
Eirene Mitsos and Ken Browne (1998) believed that boys are underachieving in school and have identified reasons to explain this. They believe that ‘teacher expectation’ plays an important role in the underachievement of boys. As teachers tend to be less strict with boys, therefore expecting a lower standard of work and disruptive behaviour from boys than girls. As a result, more boys are sent out of lessons and expelled, therefore losing ‘learning time in class’ and leading to failure in education.
They also believe that ‘the culture of masculinity’ encourages boys to want to be ‘macho’ and ‘tough’ which means that boys are more likely to form ‘anti-school subculture’. ... Therefore boys in such groups lose interest in school and consequently underachieve in exams.
John Abraham (1995) carried out a research in which he asked teachers to identify and describe pupils who were typical boys and typical girls.
Approximate Word count = 1185
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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