Boys, Girls and Achievement
Boys, Girls and Achievement Girls are now out-performing boys at GCSE level, giving rise to a debate in the media on boys' underachievement. Boys, Girls and Achievement - Addressing the Classroom…
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Boys, Girls and Achievement
Girls are now out-performing boys at GCSE level, giving rise to a debate in the media on boys' underachievement. Boys, Girls and Achievement - Addressing the Classroom Issues fills that gap and:provides a critical overview of the current debate on achievement;Focuses on interviews with young people and classroom observations to examine how boys and girls see themselves as learners;analyses the strategies teachers can use to improve the educational achievements of both boys and girls.Becky Francis provides teachers with a thorough analysis of the various ways in which secondary school pupils construct their gender identities in the classroom. However, often such work has been a 'knee-jerk' response, led by media, not based on solid research.
The book also discusses methods teachers might use challenge these gender constructions in the classroom and thereby
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