boys and reading/literacy
Here's a paragraph from the NCTE "Inbox" (an email update of literacy-related news stories which you receive if you're a member of NCTE) related to Larry's post about boys and reading. You should be able to go to the link and find a newspaper article about this topic.
Janet
Making Learning a Guy Thing (The Salt Lake Tribune, January 17)
Across the nation, more than 80 percent of school disciplinary actions are aimed at boys and they take more medication for attention disorders, according to Kathy Stevens, co-author of the book The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in Life and School. She believes problems boys face often can be traced to the fact that they learn to read later and often never develop a love of reading.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3409374
posted by Janet @ 5:59 AM
1 Comments:
This is a very interesting problem that has arisen. I find the whole modeling thing interesting. As I was meeting with my mentor teacher the other day, she told me how great it was the I, a male, would be student teaching. She seemed to think that the English Education profession has more female professionals than male. I think this in itself shows a conception of English as a 'feminine' area of study. I don't happen to believe that the study of anything can or should be gendered, but I think this is enlightening for our perspective, as teachers, on the students views of English. The boys will probably view it as a feminine course of study especially if the majority of their teachers have been female and at the stage of life most male students are in during middle and high school they don't want to step to far from the 'masculine' persona.
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