The role education has on children is extremely important. Education and education professionals have the crucial role of teaching children and shaping their social attitudes. The time spent at school has a huge impact on the way children begin to look at the world, and the views they develop. It is the role of the history GCSE curriculum to provide students with a fair and well-represented understanding of history.
Throughout the use of blog posts, this research project has analysed the representation of women in the GCSE history curriculum. The first blog post has investigated the current representation of women in the curriculum, looking into the suffragettes and the women of the second world war. Then, gender bias and the implications of a male dominated education has been explored. Moving on, the impact of under-representation of minority groups in education has been investigated, which then ties into the next blog post, the representation of minority groups with a wider view. With the use of the national curriculum, academic textbooks, and primary and secondary readings, this research project has critically evaluated and gained an understanding to how women are being underrepresented in the current GCSE curriculum, and what the implications of this could potentially result in.
Gender in history 