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The GDST Perspective
Updated August 2022
5 Executive summary
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9 Introduction
12 Key caveats
17 Girls-only education: Significant outcomes
29 Factors underpinning girls-only education
57 The trouble with girls
61 Determinants of success in single-sex schooling
71 The corollaries of success at school
77 Conclusion: Subversive Schools
78 References
96 Working out what works in girls’ education
The argument in brief:
■ Gender affects the way that students experience education
■ Girls face pressures to conform to gender stereotypes – pressures which are stronger in the presence of boys
■ Girls need and deserve space in which to develop their full potential, and to make informed and unconstrained choices about interests, subjects and careers
■ In girls-only schools their needs and preferences can be fully accommodated within a dedicated learning environment
■ Successful girls’ schools are those in which a dedication to girls’ education is reflected in their physical design, curriculum and co-curriculum offer, teaching and learning approaches, and in their whole-school culture
■ Today’s girls’ schools serve to subvert, rather than sustain, gender stereotypes and a priori assumptions, by offering an education designed for and dedicated to the development and empowerment of successful, happy, confident and adventurous young women.
