Challenging Stereotypes in the Curriculum

Some argue removing gender stereotypes from treading schemes, textbooks and…

Other learning materials has removed a barrier to girls’ achievement

For example, in the 70s and 80s, reading schemes portrayed girls mainly as ______________

Physics books showed them as _____________

Housewives and mothers

Scared of science

_______ (1995) argues that since the 1980s, teachers have _____________

Weiner

Challenged gender stereotypes

Also, in general, ________ have been removed from __________

Sexist images

Teaching materials

This may have helped to raise girls’ achievement by presenting more…

Positive images of what women are capable of