SOC275H5 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Gendered classroom textbook note
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French and literature in the same class room, reading same books and listen to the same teacher and are supposedly graded by the same criteria. We learnt what it means to be men and women. School organized as institution both in official curriculum (textbooks and the like) and hidden curriculum of our informal interactions with both teachers and other students, we become gendered. Hidden curriculum reinforced in the parallel curriculum presented by the mass media. We, student get the message from both the content and the form of education is that women and men are different and unequal, that the inequality comes from those differences and that, therefore, such inequality is justified. The differences we observe are the products of gender inequality, not the cause of it. Formal education has historically been limited by sex and class and in modern world, by race. 18th century, education was largely reserved by for upper-class boy and men.
