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| Are schools nowadays a hostile learning environment for boys? |
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Some anti-feminist men are claiming that they are, but I really don't see it. If they are, describe how?
Granted, I went to a private school, so my educational experience is obviously going to be different than most. But overall it seemed that, at my school, the environment slightly favored boys. We had several male teachers, and they were always treating the boys really well because of the male athletics at our school (most of the boys played sports). Everyone was still very respectful towards females, but I don't think we got any advantages.
The top 5 or 6 students in my class (of 25 total) were still girls, though, despite not having any kind of discernible advantage, and perhaps a slight disadvantage.
Does anyone happen to know if there are any schools who separate boys and girls classes, with the teaching styles specifically designed to work best for the gender of the class?
If there are such programs, what is the success of them? And what are the overall marks of the students? In other words, are the females significantly ahead of the males in any area, and are the males significantly ahead of the females in any area?
These are all good points, and I can see how it would be hard for a boy to succeed.
On one point I do disagree though...I don't think you can really blame it on women that there are more female teachers. Maybe if more men would pursue education as a career there would be more male teachers.
Ashley H also has a good point, with the birdhouse reference. I can recall many instances in which the boys in my community and school got to do all kinds of cool things, while the girls were stuck doing useless girly things. I hated it.
That sounds like a pretty logical reason why a man wouldn't want to become a teacher. Incidentally, I've also heard of instances in which the "Don't talk to strangers" thing they teach kids has been changed to "Don't talk to male strangers, find a woman to help you". That can't be helping matters.
I do agree that on average, boys learn one way and girls learn another way. There are three main learning styles that I am aware of: visual (learn by seeing), auditory (learn by hearing), and tactile (learn by doing). If I had to guess, I would say that most boys are probably either tactile or visual, and most girls are probably auditory or visual (note, this is just a guess).
So, here's the question...do we separate the classes by gender and cater to that particular gender's learning style? What about the handful of boys who may learn better the female way or vice versa? Or do we simply keep the whole class together and use a balance of different teaching styles for different learning styles?
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Boys and girls have different ways of learning, the current learning style in schools is beneficial |
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| 40 years, 7 months ago, posted by Rebel - Read: 1 Comment: 0 | Reference |
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