Gender Differences in Subject Choice

Read the section on Gender and subject choice on pages 132 to 136 of the book. Now study tables 3C and 3D in the book and answer the following questions: A. A levels What proportion of those studying Physics are male? What proportion of those studying Sociology is...

Teacher Stereotyping

Gilborn (1992) found that teachers often have different perceptions of children, according to their ethnic group and therefore sometimes treated them differently. How does this happen? Answer the following questions: What is meant by the term ‘stereotyping’? What...

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Read the account of Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study on pages 104 and 105 of the book and discuss the following questions: In what ways might the teachers have treated the ‘spurters’ differently from the other children? What effect might this have had on the other...