Gender and Education in 2010

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Key issues with equity for boys and girls in school


Wikipedia is not always a great site, but it did give some key ideas for what the ideas are today concerning gender in the classroom. It says that women are thought that they should sit at home and be house wives. It says they should choose careers that will allow them to do so. I think that this is incredibly ambiguous in today's society, but I know that it's still true. These sort of thoughts are still present today, when I thought that they were gone many years ago. I understand that there are traditionalist thoughts still, but I feel that this is extreme because it is the general thought of the public supposedly. Considering this FNED class is about 99% female, I think everyone in this class can say we do not fully agree with this idea of stay at home mothers.

This report says that in a coeducational school, boys attract attention more from teachers than girls. This is usually with inexperienced teachers, and that experienced teachers work to find a way to make it work with all the students. I think we need to keep this in mind as we all go into teaching because we are inexperienced, even though we will be student teaching. It isn't enough to notice subtle differences in the classroom of how you treat different genders.








This site is in response to a New York Times piece. It was very helpful.

http://www.education2.bham.ac.uk/documents/staff/skelton_c/Gender_and_ITE.pdf

This other website says that boys are far behind girls in grades, so that teachers now focus more on males. Boys are more likely to drop out of school than girls also. This site also says that there is a lack of male teachers also and that there are people trying to recruit more males to teach.

I think from the information I found, that women are not expected to have a real career and they should be a stay at home mother. That men are not as interested as being teachers as women. And also that boys are focused more on by inexperienced teachers than females.

In class, I think there should be a discussion on peoples thoughts of a stay at home mother. Obviously we are all in college now so it doesn't seem likely that the class would personally agree, but I know some people would still have positive thoughts on this idea.