In this chapter by John L. Rury, "Coeducation and Same-Sex Schooling" is about how schools first started allowing men and women attend the same school. Its been long for people to figure out how to educate men and women. In current years, feminists have signed separate schools to support women's achievements. Coeducation started to grow, but gender segregated schools continued to stay the same around the world. People thought coeducation schools would change the traditional labor for the men and women.
In the eighteenth century, coeducation started to grow throughout North America. New England was the first to practice coeducation. The years following the American Revolution, helped with coeducation by people being interested in female education
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School Boards argued that coeducation was necessary due to the fact that males help influence the females to great success and that females give civilizing influence on males. In other countries, coeducation started to become more dominate. Coeducation was an efficient way to boost enrollments, and it helped the newly formed Soviet Union to meet its requirements for training workers in different areas.
In the United States, the number of high school students that attended a coeducational school rose tremendously. Some groups did not like the coeducation practices because they believed that it forced an unhealthy competition between the genders. Coeducational school started to spread slowly but effectively throughout the United States. Single sex schools started
to become coeducational schools around the 1950s and 1960s. Coeducation grew widely and was very popular in the United States, it exceeded enormous public obtaining. Women education grew greatly in the male law and medical fields, and some others stayed segregated by sex. Some of them fields are nursing, carpentry, and auto repair. Other countries seen how greatly that women's education was evolving, so they practiced coeducation to expand there women's
“Men are from Mars, women are from Venus” as the famous saying of John Gray goes. It is believed men and women are nothing alike in almost every aspect. In Deborah Tannen’s essay “Gender in the classroom: Teacher’s Classroom Strategies Should Recognize that Men and Women Use Language Differently” she focused on how men and women differ when it comes to communicating, with emphasis on how it effects to how men and women behave in the classroom.
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... Consequently, it has taken gender differences a long time to develop. a gradual process, it has been uneven and incomplete, since it has never been absolute all over the world, and different classes embraced it sooner than others. The ideology and rationale are there, yet this change has many exceptions and abstractions which will not allow historians to fully confirm their thesis.
Single sex classes may help to break down stereotypes that the coeducational classroom may inadvertently reinforce. While attending single sex schools, students are more likely to excel in any subject, rather than limit ...
In his article, “The Gender Gap at School,” David Brooks scrutinizes common gender roles and introduces the idea that biological factors may play a role in human development. He begins his essay by analyzing the three gender segregated sections in any airport, which include the restrooms, security pat-down areas, and the bookstore. He goes on to explain that the same separation occurs in the home. Brooks includes a study given to nine hundred men and women who were asked to name their favorite novel. The study determined that men preferred novels written by fellow men, whereas women favored books written woman.
Education was sex segregated for hundreds of years. Men and women went to different schools or were physically and academically separated into “coeducational” schools. Males and females had separate classrooms, separate entrances, separate academic subjects, and separate expectations. Women were only taught the social graces and morals, and teaching women academic subjects was considered a waste of time.
Sending a child to a gender based school, is a very big decision to make. The decision is so big, that looking at what research has to say about the topic could alter one’s decision to send their child to a gender based school. “Educators must apply different approaches in teaching make, and female students” (Gurian). This is said by Gurian, because he also believes that boys and girls learn differently. “Social pressures can be gentler and your child can learn at his own pace” (Kennedy).
Most students are against the same school. They want to flirt with the cute guy in math or ask the shy girl in history for a pencil, even if they already have one. Same-sex classrooms provide a multitude of benefits, because they promote better behavior, higher grades, improved self-esteem, and are able to cater to a student’s needs. The same classes make it possible for teachers to cater to student needs in a more efficient way. In general, boys benefit from hands-on learning, but girls benefit from calm discussions (Mullins 3).
The teacher tossed a Styrofoam basketball to the outstretched arms of a fifth grade boy. Catching the ball was the incentive for the boys to point out missing conventions in a paragraph. The teacher projected a paragraph on the board with omitted punctuation for the students to add. The other boys in the class watched him as he went to the board to add the missing comma and then tossed the ball back to the teacher. A few seconds later, other arms shot up in the air to point out other missing conventions (Stotsky). A simple incentive of competition for the boys made them enjoy learning and actually got them to participate in class. Although single-sex classrooms can develop stereotypes for both genders, separating boys and girls can be beneficial for the students. Single-sex classes are more effective because they raise test scores, create fewer distractions, and make kids interested in school.
Finally, there is no one sex school is going to be right for every student. There are many advantages and disadvantages mentioned in that essay before. But it's thought all over the world that the coeducation is preferred worldwide. About 90 % of schools all over the world are stuck to co-education. Mixed-sex education has achieved higher success rate. They also graduate students who are settled emotionally and able to deal with the real society. "There are not any dominant blessings for single-sex schools on academic grounds. Studies all over the world have failed to expose any major variations.'' - Academician Alan Smothers, director of education and employment analysis at the University of Buckingham 2011.
In the 1960s the civil rights movement inspired a new women’s movement, and women began to speak out for fair treatment at school and in the work place. Before these movement girls were warned about math classes being too difficult and were told that a college or a graduate degree was a waste of time. Boys were encouraged to study math and science to ready them for careers. Girls were supposed to be good in English and prepare to become wives and mothers. (Blumenthal 1) Past Generations that grew up with the development of education would now wonder why the genders would want to be separate when once they fought to be together.
The first all female schools began in the early 1800’s. These academies favored more traditional gender roles, women being the home makers and the men being the bread winners. The first generation of educated women was the result of single-sex colleges in 1873. Wendy Kaminer, an investigative journalist, states that “single-sex education was not exactly a choice; it was a cultural mandate at a time when sexual segregation was considered only natural” (1). Women of this time were technically not allowed to attend school with males. Feminists of this time worked hard to integrate the school system and by the early 1900’s, single sex classrooms were a thing of the past. In 1910, twenty-seven percent of colleges were for men only, fifteen percent were for women only and the remainders were coed. Today, women outnumber men among college graduates (Kaminer 1). After all the hard work of early feminists, there are thousands of people today who advocate bringing back the single sex classroom.
Some people think that single sex schools are good because girls and boys feel free to talk, ask and raise their hands without being made fun of, "The theoretical approach termed 'girl power' argues that girls lag behind boys in some subject in co-ed classrooms." (predit, 2014). However, Single sex schools are very bad because it affects children attitude, they will find difficulty in communicating with their colleagues in college as they were secluded and didn't interact with other sex in school. Boys and girls should know from a young age how to deal with the opposite sex, instead of facing that when they become adults, and don't have experience on what to do. Students in single-sex classrooms will one day live and work side-by-side with members of the opposite sex .Educating students in single-sex schools restrains their chance to work helpfully and cooperate effectively with parts of the inverse sex. "It is not long before the youth of today will be the parents, co-workers and leaders of tomorrow" (strauss, 2012). "Anything we organize along any variable, if we're saying boys he...
Education has been an important factor of all of our lives for an exceptional amount of time, but unfortunately, America has been falling behind from other nations in their education system compared to other nations (Pahlke 444). Almost all of our public schools in our country are coeducational and only handful of them are single-sex educational schools. Single-sex education should be taken into high consideration for most students to attend because of the benefits they might gain from them. It is important to look at all possible ways to try and better our education system for the benefit of the children and teenagers attending school. The most important years of schooling that provide a solid background for all students would be kindergarten through senior year of high school. It provides the basic knowledge and problem solving skills that will be utilized for most of our lives. In order to ensure that the children and teenagers today are provided with the best quality of education, we want to make sure they are engaged and focused in school and single-sex schools will be able to make that possible for students. Not only will it help our students remain focused in the classroom, it will also provide a comfortable environment for them in which they can enable themselves to learn.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”, said Nelson Mandela. Undoubtedly, education is essential for everyone, especially for the young generations as they are the future leader that will conquer the world. It inspires them to gain knowledge as knowledge is power and broaden their views towards the world. For that reason, every parent surely wants the best for their child by sending them to school to gain further education. It is a golden opportunity for them to change for the betterment. The quote by Theodore Roosevelt, “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad”, can relate to it. However, choosing the right school for the child is a complex decision needed to make by every parent. Thus, the question that often troubles every parent is that, whether to send their child to co-educational school or single sex school (Ssenkabirwa & Mitti, 2010). Many experts say “…it’s nearly impossible to compare apples to apples when it comes to single-sex versus coeducation.” (Novotney, 2011). As every coin has two sides, both of it have advantages and disadvantages. By any means, it is believed that co-educational pros undoubtedly outweigh the cons side. Mixed-sex education, also known as co-education, is a schooling system, where girls and boys learn together under the same roof. It is the opposite of single-sex education. It is believed that the concept of co-education was introduced by a renewed Greek philosopher, called Plato, who believed that girls and boys should be treating equally. Hence, co-educational school can be said as a natural imitation of the real world as it is a mixed school that consists of bot...