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#40DayChallenge – Day 5 – Gender and Achievement

Today’s question is another request – this time on Gender and Education. Ten markers on this topic can go a number of ways – Internal factors, external factors, subject choice, boys underachieving, girls underachieving, experience of students. It is one I shall revisit over the 40 days from a slightly different angle, but this question is a little more straightforward than the others. The difficulty with this type of question is drawing the hooks from the items and staying focused on the reasons for girl’s overachievement as being caused by those hooks. The question is:

Yesterday’s question on Post-modernity proved popular and can be found here https://thesociologyguy.com/model-answers/

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The Sociology Guy is a pseudonym originally used by Craig Gelling when he was working in an FE College to provide an outlet for his frustrations with how he was expected to teach and strict rules around intellectual property in his former employer. The Sociology Guy name came from his early years as a supply teacher, where students would often not know his name and ask for ‘the sociology guy’ when coming to the staff room. Initially set up in 2018 as an anonymous You Tube channel, Craig has since written, recorded and presented for many different organisations and education providers. His purpose is to try and make sociology both accessible and understandable for all students and support teachers to inspire the next generation of sociologists.

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