What Is Wrong with the Ways in Which Teachers Typically

question 64

Essay

What is wrong with the ways in which teachers typically make causal attributions about girls' and boys' successes and failures?

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Definitions:

Sex Bias

The unfair difference in treatment or attitudes based on an individual's sex, often leading to disadvantage or prejudice against one sex.

Sex-Role Stereotyping

Sex-Role Stereotyping involves assigning behaviors, tasks, and roles based on societal expectations related to an individual's sex, often leading to limitations and inequities.

Issue of Control

The struggle or conflict surrounding the ability, desire, or need to manage or influence events, outcomes, or actions.

Issue of Power

A concept that refers to the dynamics of control, authority, and influence within relationships, groups, or societies, and how it affects interactions and decisions.