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By discourses around the negative impact of patriarchal culture and behaviours on girls (Ofsted, 2021) – boys are also suffering. This, in turn, is leading to a feminisation of education and contributes towards boys’ underachievement (Majzub & Rais, 2010), which is a persistent and pervasive trend (DfE, 2023).

In this blog post, I argue that patriarchal narratives are not simply ideas that exist within and canada email list between boys in education. Teachers themselves play a significant role in the reproduction of the patriarchal narrative, with Skelton & Francis (cited in Skipper & Fox, 2020) arguing that teachers’ views of boys in classrooms frame them as more difficult to teach than girls. As much as patriarchy is considered a bottom-up issue within schools, therefore, so too is there evidence of a top-down reproduction of patriarchal narratives.

‘Teachers themselves play a significant role in the reproduction of the patriarchal narrative … [as] teachers’ views of boys in classrooms frame them as more difficult to teach than girls.