In school we rediscover the gender difference.
Males and females, separate classes
The girls study together
best in the world 40 million students in 210 000 establishments in the classroom should be divided by gender. The successes in Britain
mate bench can be a burden. If is male. Why is distracting, confusing, attracts the attention of the professor. "There is evidence that all-girl classes in the level of learning is better," says Joseph Zanniello, Professor of Curriculum and Special Education in Palermo. It also confirmed what other research and other experiences: the colleges of the English bourgeoisie, to the ghettos of American cities. So, after thirty years in which no one has questioned the principle of mixed classes, many schools are raising the separation females in a classroom, boys in another. And to socialize? We are friends, holidays and sports. But outside school, where Instead "we must study" and the post-hormonal caciarona of boys do not seem at all well. "Neither the girls nor the boys themselves." In Italy, the cheerleaders of the "homogeneous classes' are still few. But certain: it rejects all accusations of sexism and claim their model. With pride. And with some argument that teaching might be worth listening
Education homogeneous
More than 210 000 schools, all over the world, educate more than 40 million children according to the principles of gender differences. They are called single-sex school and, year after year, are undermining the dogma of "coeducation," that goal that, by late sixties, it seemed to have put an end to any discussion on the pedagogy applied to the sexes. The theory behind the project: males and females are so different physically and psychologically it would be wrong to claim that they can do the same things (for example learning to write) the same age. Better to keep them apart. "The goal - explained pedagogues, psychologists and principals during the last Congress of the European Association Single-Sex Education (Easse) last April 24 in Rome - have equal opportunities." For everyone. Because "it belongs to men's presence restricts women's leadership, the other guys are disadvantaged by the more rapid development of the company.
discrimination and evaluation of the series: you confusion, screaming, misbehaved and you will conquer the professor. It seems paradoxical, but studies presented last month in Rome show how teachers giving heed - if only to keep them at bay - to the male students and helps to improve the ratings. Result: the girls are neglected and not appreciated. And in more "lost" in trying to gain acceptance by other students, entering in conflict with peers. "In homogeneous classes, though - looks Klement Polacek, professor emeritus of the Pontifical Salesian University Rome - not only achieve better performance, but in emerging technical and scientific matters, they usually precluded because of a gender stereotype. " Even the boys 'come good' without the competition of women, suffer fewer gender gap, the difference in learning. The race
Italian
homogeneous class, a possible model of education. The first to apply it were the British: the UK's single sex schools are 1,092, of which 416 state. The results are excellent: among the top ten institutions in the country, only one is mixed. Berlin has 180 schools homogenous, France 238, while in the last seven years the U.S. has converted 540 public institutions from mixed waste. And in Italy? A group of parents in Milan, joined the association Faes (Family and school), gave birth from 1974 to the present 14 peer schools (3000 pupils from nursery to high school) to Naples, Palermo, Bologna, Rome, Verona, Milan. Features: tutorial method, participation of parents and, of course, teaching differentiated by gender. "But our key point - says Carmen Pontieri, President of the Conference of Faes centers - is customized education for which the homogeneity is a consequence not the cause." Entries Faes centers are growing. "Increase interest to us, "the director acknowledges. The same Valentina Aprea, chairman of the House Committee on Culture, at the congress in Rome said: "Any form of approval reduces the fullness of the person and the person-woman-man. The Italian school has a duty to provide a variety of educational modes. Which suggests an opening to enter the public system of education uniform. "But only in the context of autonomy and with parental consent - precisely the parliament - and no more ad hoc.
The case of Italy in the Bronx
If different classes are unique of private schools (and therefore payment), the United States become a synonym for social emancipation for the poor classes. This is the case of the Young Women's Leadership School in New York, the Bronx institution founded in 1996 and attended by pupils in the sun for 70 percent of the cases living below the poverty line. "The founders - says Josep Barnils, creator of the axis - they realized that the students were living in a world dominated by males. A year later, all the tensions were gone. " In 2002 he joined the university 96 percent of those young people of the Bronx. In New York the average is 50 percent.
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criticism against the school homogeneous there: "Go back 40 years ',' Divide males and females is the result of gender-phobia": "It is a form of discrimination." Among the skeptics is the psychologist Fulvio Scaparro: "Contact between genders is an enrichment: remaining separate you lose the relationship with the opposite sex in an age where we need to know and be close. In short, in the name of a possible profit 'superlative', the price seems too high. " The writer (and teacher) Paola Mastrocola is puzzled: "It would be nice to be able to afford the luxury of thinking about certain issues. But the problems of education today, are others. " Scaparro a solution - provocative - we would have: "If the contact between genders in the classroom is so dangerous, then it may be at work. We share offices, because at school and in other places is not it? ".
Annachiara Sacchi
Corriere della Sera, May 10, 2009
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