The industrial classroom
Boys have a lot of Huck Finn in them — they don’t, on average, learn as well as girls by sitting still, concentrating, multitasking, listening to words. For 20 years, I have been taking brain research into homes and classrooms to show teachers, parents and others how differently boys and girls learn. Once a person sees a PET or SPECT scan of a boy’s brain and a girl’s brain, showing the different ways these brains learn, they understand. As one teacher put it to me, “Wow, no wonder we’re having so many problems with boys.”
Yet every decade the industrial classroom becomes more and more protective of the female learning style and harsher on the male […]
Though the question remains: where do all those smart girls disappear to, once they have finished their education?
[x]#1582 fan woensdag 7 december 2005 @ 22:28:26
eliane op 8 december 2005 @ 16:09:42
Roepikaljaren, roepikaljaren, roepikaljaren. Zoon en dochter. Tranendal dat meisjesonderwijs. Dochter doet glansrijk en een jaar te vroeg eindexamen dit jaar, ik hoop idd dat ze nergens naar toe verdwijnt. Zoon worstelt, en zal ondanks de school wel een keer komen bovendrijven.