Well, one difference that I have noticed in my years is that men are
much less supportive and enabling in communities than women, and men
tend to be more confrontational. I don't know why, it could be
cultural, upbringing, genetics, biology, whatever. I'd like to see
that change because I think everyone will benefit.
I think this thread more or less illustrates the disparity. :D
That's my two bits...
.hc
On Sep 23, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, pueblo@mail.ljudmila.org wrote:
yes is basically valid for all people that are not white males or
in other words for all the people that have different cognitive
styles than the dominant western white model.I can fetch you quite a few women and/or arabic or latino or
whatever you want, who are perfectly comfortable with so-called
western white male cognitive style, that they themselves are profs
holding doctorates.Meanwhile, when I was in university, I could hardly focus, I had a
wandering mind, a tendency to nap in the classroom, trouble
actually getting myself to attend classes, and most of all, I was
much more concerned by knowledge in general than by actual grades,
and by cross-course reasonings than by sticking to one course's
assumptions and biases and blind-spots and to whatever the prof says.Meanwhile, the often-reported fact is that girls score better in
schools and you have magazine reports on what's the matter with the
boys in schools because they underperform and fail so much.19-year-old undergraduates in QC are 40% male, 60% female (figures
of 2003, published in 2007).A decade ago, for undergraduates regardless of age: In Medicine/ Dentistry/etc (grouped together) it was 77% female. In Litterature
it was 72%, in Biology it was 58%, in Chemistry 44%, and in Math
40%, just to give a few examples. The report I have doesn't say the
figure for Psychology, but looking at "Class of 2004"-type
portraits of UdeM it is obviously around 95%.So I don't quite think that the main dividing lines in education
methodologies are at all involving gender issues. Women seem
happier in the current school system than men are._ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal QC
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