'Troublesome boys' and 'compliant girls': Gender identity and perceptions of achievement and underachievement

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Jones, Susan ^a,b   Myhill, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746086439     PISSN: 01425692     EISSN: 14653346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0142569042000252044     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Arnot, M. & Gubb, J. (2001) Adding value to boys' and girl' education. A gender and achievement project in West Sussex (Crawley, West Sussex County Council).
2. Bousted, M. (1989) Who talks? English in Education, 23, 41-51.
3. Collins, C. Kenway, J. & Mcleod, J. (2000) Factors influencing the educational performance of males and females in school and their initial destinations after leaving school (Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs. Canberra, AGPS).
4. DfES. (2003) Aiming high: raising the achievement of minority ethnic pupil (London, DfES).
5. Dweck, C., Davidson, W., Nelson, S. & Enna, B. (1978) Sex differences and learned helplessness, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 457-462.
6. Floud, J. H., Halsey, A. H. & Martin, F. M. (1957) Social class and educational opportunity (London, Heinemann).
7. Gillborn, D. & Mirza, H. S. (2000) Educational inequality. Mapping race, class and gender (London, Ofsted). Available online at: www.ofsted.gov.uk
8. German, T., White, J., Brooks, G., Maclure, M. & Kispal, A. (1988) Language performance in schools: review of APU language monitoring 1979-1983 (London, HMSO).
9. Griffin, C. (1982) Typical girls? (London, Routledge).
10. Halsey, A. H., Heath, A. F. and Ridge, J. M. (1980) Origins and destinations (London, Clarendon).
11. Hannan, G. (1996) Improving boys' performance. INSET materials. Much Welcome, private publication.
12. Jackson, D. & Salisbury, J. (1996) Why should secondary schools take working with boys seriously?, Gender and Education, 8(1), 103-115.
13. Jones, S. (2003) How does the underachieving boy differ, it at all, from the underachieving girl? Unpublished Ph.D. thesis (Exeter University).
14. Leder, G. (1980) Bright girls, mathematics and fear of success, Education Studies in Mathematics, 11(4), 411-422.
15. Mac an Ghaill, M. (1994) The making of men: masculinities, sexualities and schooling (Buckingham, Open University Press).
16. Martino, W. (1999) 'Cool boys', 'party animals', 'squids' and 'poofters': Interrogating the dynamics and politics of adolescent masculinities in school, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20(2), 239-263.
17. Millard, E. (1997) Differently literate: boys, girls and the schooling of literacy (London, Palmer).
18. Myhill, D. A. (2002) Bad boys and good girls? Patterns of interaction and response in whole class teaching, British Educational Research Journal, 28(3), 339-352.
19. Ofsted (2003a) Yes he can - schools where boys write well (London, HMI 505).
20. Ofsted (2003b) Boys' achievement in secondary schools (London, HMI).
21. Osier, A., Street, C., Lall, M. & Vincent, K. (2002) Not a problem? Girls and school exclusion (London, Joseph Rowntree Foundation).
22. Osmont, P. & Davies, J. (1987) Stop, look and listen: an account of girls' and boys' achievement in reading and maths in the primary school (London, ILEA).
23. Platten, J. (1999) Raising boys' achievement, Curriculum, 20(1), 2-6.
24. Plummer, G. (2000) Failing working class girls (Stoke on Trent, Trentham).
25. Reay, D. (1999) Sugar and spice and all things nice? Gender discourses and girls' cultures in the primary classroom, paper presented at Voices in Gender and Education Conference, University of Warwick.
26. Swann, J. & Graddol, D. (1988) Gender inequalities in classroom talk, English in Education, 22(1), 48-65.
27. Walkerdine, V. (1989) Counting girls out (London, Virago).
28. Weinar, B. (1971) Perceiving the causes of success and failure (New York, General Learning Press).
29. Weiner, G. (1985) Just a bunch of girls (Milton Keynes, Open University Press).