There is an old and tired saying that states, "Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars". Kind of a cop out right? It's as if society will do anything to try and explain the differences between men and women. There has been study upon study that has proven these differences that go beyond physicality. I found this picture below while browsing Google for differences between men and women, and this photo just seemed to make sense. Not in the way that women and men are so different that they should be separated in all aspects of life, but in the fact that there are some key differences that many parts of society overlook. It's not about being unequal sexes, but just being simply different. Single Sex Education may just be the key to advancing the academics and knowledge of America's youth by working with those differences. If males and females are shown to perform differently and learn differently on a broad scale, why not use that knowledge to our advantage?
In the article "Single-Sex Education in Public School Settings" Heather Glynn Crawford-Ferre and Lynda R. Weist made a very important point stating, " The final reason offered for using single-sex environments was the goal of addressing gender-specific learning styles with teaching strategies or pedagogical practices aimed directly at increasing learning for boys or girls" (Crawford-Ferre and Weist, page 16). I think differences among male and females should be recognized and utilized to our advantage in American school systems. "Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars" may be a broad and unvalidated point in the eyes of some, but it makes you wonder if maybe there's some truth behind that statement?
http://www.nationalmemo.com/maines-ken-fredette-my-mans-brain-doesnt-like-medicaid-expansion/
I really like that you chose this picture as I think it is incredibly cohesive to what we learned this past week in class. I think there is much truth to the fact that women and men learn differently but my one question is do we need to to completely separate boys and girls or should we just be focusing on different styles of teaching in the same classroom?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Caitie, this picture is cute, but also does a great way of painting a picture of how women and men are very different. Reading the articles this past week, and seeing how the direction of single sex education has had on boys and girls is quit astonishing. It has opened multiple new avenues of learning. I went to a private co-ed elementary and a public co-ed high school. I often noticed how many teachers taught to a specially learning style, and they were weary of taking on the challenges of different learning styles. On top of that, the few professors that did tend to favor boys with classes like math and science, did make me feel inadequate. So if you as a parent and child feel as though single sex education might be a better fit, than more power to you. I personally would of liked the option of going to a single sex school when I was in grade school. Lastly I think that the single sex education needs to be more recognized, and introduced as another option, whether in a public or private setting.
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