Single gender schools by Enami Rivera https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6 Saoni en-us 2018-10-15 15:54:18 UTC 2019-01-14 22:40:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecookie.png saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/292903236 It’s not that I didn’t know how to communicate with boys or that it wasn’t possible to socialite outside of school, but by dividing people based on gender it becomes easy to see the opposite sex as the other, especially at the lower key stages.😇]]> 2018-10-15 16:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/292903236 saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293072406
  • Don't Let Them Experience (And Thereby Respect) DiversityAt school, children are taught to learn to get along with people from other cultures, races, learning styles, ages and backgrounds. It teaches tolerance and acceptance of people’s differences and ways of thinking. Why should gender be any different? Mixed gender schools teach students to respect gender differences and similarities from an early age.




 


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  • Deny Opportunities For Mixed Gender Friendships We have to respect that there are fundamental differences between genders – whether that’s socially or biologically determined. However, these differences are not the same for everyone. For this reason, some girls feel more comfortable making friends with a group of boys, and vice versa. This opportunity to make friends with a group of the other gender doesn’t present itself at single-sex schools.

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  • Can Cause Gender Stereotyping And Undermine Gender Equality Often, the only occasions that all-boys and all-girls schools mix is at school discos, prom and other formal events – times when both genders dress up and try to impress the other. This tends to sexualise the other gender, and creates unrealistic expectations of how men and women should look and behave in normal life. Single-sex schools can therefore promote gender stereotyping, and undermine gender equality

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  • don't Prepare Them For 'The Real World 'Some experts feel that a mixed school better prepares children for their future ‘in the real world’, where men and women aren’t segregated. When children develop relationships with the other gender, they are provided with experience for later on in life when both genders work alongside each other in all aspects of jobs and professions. The other gender isn’t seen as separate, strange or different, but as a normal colleague.

    • ]]>     2018-10-15 21:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293073560     saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293078379 “Anything we organize along any variable, if we’re saying boys here, girls there, we’re telling kids that the way they learn is different,” said Diane Halpern, a psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College in California and dean of social sciences at the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute, who has testified on behalf of the ACLU. “We are, in fact, enhancing sexual stereotyping.”

    ]]>     2018-10-15 21:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293078379     saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293078728 related to college, one of the biggest reasons why single-gender classes popped up in the ’90s was to help women do better in the classroom, but recent statistics show that women attend college in larger numbers, outnumbering men by 14 percent.


    In fact, girls are less likely than boys to be held back in American schools, too, so some argue that the effort put into helping girls in the classroom may be counter-intuitive when the boys are the ones who aren’t doing as well.
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    ]]>     2018-10-15 21:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293079327     enariv24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293437762 More than 500 public schools in the U.S. offered single-sex classrooms or educational opportunities during the 2011–12 school year, with 116 of them entirely single-sex and the remainder with at least some coed opportunities alongside single-sex classes, according to NASSPE.]]> 2018-10-16 16:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293437762 saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293441693
    opponents say single-sex classes and schools perpetuate gender stereotypes and that segregating kids by gender smacks of the kind of discrimination that — until Brown v. Board of Education struck down the practice in 1954 — allowed schools to segregate based on race.


    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), for example, has been investigating single-sex schools across the country and filing lawsuits against those it says promote gender stereotypes.



    ]]>     2018-10-16 16:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293441693     saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293937092 David Robertson, headmaster at Shawnigan Lake School, a coed boarding high school in BC, says boys and girls ultimately have a more enriching educational experience when they get to learn together. "There's a cross-pollination that goes on in the academic environment," Robertson says. "The diligence and attentiveness of girls positively affects boys, while the liveliness of boys inspires girls. They learn from and are inspired by each other."]]> 2018-10-17 15:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293937092 saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941210 When play got under way, these girls were competitors: they would jump for the ball, grab it, sometimes even wrestling the ball away from another girl. The girls who were most engaged were, not surprisingly, the highest-skilled girls at playing the game. Other girls were not particularly excited about the game and certainly were not jumping and grabbing for the ball; again, not surprisingly, these girls were less skilled. Weisfeld and colleagues found the same variation in engagement and skill among the Native American girls in New Mexico. When boys were brought into the gym so that there were an equal number of girls and boys playing, the picture changed. New Mexico Hopi girls still participated in the game, but the high-skill girls no longer demonstrated their skill. ]]> 2018-10-17 16:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941210 saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941280 who videotaped girls in Chicago playing dodgeball, first girls against girls, then girls and boys together. Then they did the same thing with Native American children on a Hopi reservation in New Mexico. When Chicago girls played against other Chicago girls, there was lots of variation in the style and quality of play. Some of the girls were really serious about the game: as soon as play began, those girls would adopt what coaches call the "athletic stance," knees bent, arms flexed, eyes focused, ready to jump for the ball. ]]> 2018-10-17 16:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941280 saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941382 , They didn't want to fight the boys for the ball. When the boys were playing, the high-skill Hopi girls looked very much like the low-skill girls. Most of the high-skill Chicago girls didn't even hang around for the game when boys were playing. Instead, they left the playing area altogether and went off in little groups to dance with one another or to snack on potato chips. Most of these kids, girls and boys, were 12 years old. In this study, the average girl in Chicago and in New Mexico was bigger and taller than the average boy in Chicago and in New Mexico, respectively. Nevertheless, the high-skill girls seemed to lose much of their enthusiasm for the game when boys were playing. This study, and others like it, demonstrate that group contrast effects are most pronounced when girls and boys are TOGETHER. When they are separated, girls are more free to explore different ways of being, and likewise boys. The best way to get boys to play the flute is to create an all-boys band (see the closing chapter of my book Why Gender Matters for an example from Calgary Alberta in this regard). When girls and boys are together, boys are more likely to say, "Flutes are for girls." Likewise for cooking. Likewise for dance.]]> 2018-10-17 16:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941382 saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941458 The authors then solemnly state, "Research has demonstrated that, when environments label individuals and segregate along some characteristic (e.g. gender, eye color, or randomly assigned t-shirt groups), children infer that the groups differ in important ways." Well, certainly. This is a robust finding which I discuss at length in my book Girls on the Edge, chapter 6, especially pages 174 - 180. I and others refer to this effect as "group contrast effects" although it goes by various names. People, including children, do tend to exaggerate the differences between groups. In their article published last week in Science, Dr. Halpern and her colleagues then provide another conjecture (bottom of the 1st column, p. 1707): ". . .it is likely that these effects would be even more powerful when sex is used to divide children into entirely separate classrooms or schools rather than merely into separate lines to go to lunch." What evidence do the authors provide in support of this conjecture? Zero. Zilch. Nada. They got nothing. More troubling, they show no awareness that this conjecture has been tested and found to be false. For example, consider the classic study by Carol Cronin Weisfeld and colleagues


    ]]>     2018-10-17 16:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941458     saobau24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941556 Perhaps Halpern, Eliot, Bigler et al. believe that if we didn't have any single-sex classrooms, then children would have no evidence that "sex is a core human characteristic." More importantly, these authors provide no evidence for their conjecture that "gender divisions are made even more salient in SS settings." In fact, this conjecture has been tested, and proven false, in multiple studies, none of which is cited by Halpern et al. One of the most compelling of these papers is the study published by Ursula Kessels and Bettina Hannover, in their paper entitled "When being a girl matters less: Accessibility of gender-related self-knowledge in single-sex and coeducational classes and its impact on students' physics-related self-concept of ability." These investigators randomly assigned 401 8th-grade girls from coed schools either to study science in an all-girls classroom or in a coed classroom. They found that girls in the all-girls classroom were less aware of "being a girl" and less aware of gender stereotypes regarding science, compared to girls who were randomly assigned to the coed classroom. This study directly refutes the conjecture of Halpern et al., yet they never mention it. (We will consider another similar study, by Carol Cronin Weisfeld, in a moment.)


    ]]>     2018-10-17 16:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293941556     enariv24 https://padlet.com/enariv24/ekj9v2n3dae6/wish/293947408 Dieting became a trend to the extent that one of my friends used to eat an apple and drink a diet cola for lunch – the apple for calories and the cola to expand in your stomach to kid yourself into feeling full. I counted out six cashew nuts each day to make sure I wasn’t eating too much fat.

    This might be the same in a mixed school, but I can’t see how it can’t be worse in such a small bubble where you can only compare yourself to other girls. Being pleased you don’t have to wear make-up to class because there aren’t boys there is not progressive, it’s the opposite.

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