SED2601 EXAM PACK 2022 Exam Elaborations

Outline two reasons why marketization policies may produce inequality in educational achievement between social classes. Answer:  cream-skimming; successful schools can attract higher achievers, who are more likely to be middle-class.  silt-shifting; successful schools can avoid taking less able, largely working-class pupils, who thus end up in low-achieving schools. Question Outline three reasons for gender differences in educational achievement. Answer:  laddish subcultures; boys are more likely to join anti-school subcultures that prevent them from achieving.  changes in the job market: more jobs for women/decline in traditional men’s jobs increase girls’/reduce boys’ motivation to achieve.  feminization of education; more female teachers as role models today gives girls an advantage over boys.  leisure pursuits; for example, girls’ leisure often involves a ‘bedroom culture’ of talking with friends, which develops their communication skills