Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents | Michael Gurian

Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents | Michael Gurian | Do your child a favor - give the teacher a copy!

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	Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents Michael Gurian Jossey-Bass, 2002 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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"The Restoration of Balance"

The age-old battle between Nature and Nurture has been brought by the politically correct of the recent past to a premature and lopsided conclusion. Hence gender is widely viewed as wholly a social construction. With more than enough evidence to back him up, Gurian wisely dissents from such simplicity. While retaining full awareness of the role of culture in shaping us, he restores attention to our anterior hard-wiring by nature, which we ignore, he argues, only at our peril. Gurian's latest work is a healthy corrective to certain biases which flourish within the educational establishment; it should be read with seriousness by parents and teachers who have no agenda other than wanting the best education for children of both sexes.

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Do your child a favor - give the teacher a copy!

This book resonates with "a ha's"-those rare moments when something you've just read makes such perfect sense you can actually feel it. What I like is the way Gurian blends brain-based research & classroom observation so the reader really can understand the neurological differences in boys & girls that drive their learning & behavior patterns. The extraordinary value in the book is that Gurian provides dozens of suggestions & real-life examples for teachers & parents to nurture a child's intellectual, emotional & creative development. Gurian's book offers valuable & practical insights spanning preschool through high school so I suspect my copy will be dog-eared from frequent use over the next 10 years. Do yourself -and your child-a favor: give this book to your child's teachers & encourage your school district to develop teaching standards that recognize & reflect the fact that boys & girls learn differently. Teachers, kids & parents will all benefit.

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boys and girls learn differently

This is an important book especially for educators and parents. It is essential that we are aware of the skills necessary to teach both boys and girls effectively. This book outlines in practical ways to achieve this goal. This book shows the depth and knowledge of the author that he portrayed in his other writings.

Conclusions too premature

The difference in math skills between boys and girls is tiny. It's also not found until adolescence (until then, girls do better in math than boys). Recent evidence suggests that the difference in adolescence may be due to iron-deficiency anemia, which strikes when girls start menstruating. Saying that boys are "naturally" better than girls at math prevents girls from going into money-making careers. Similarly with spatial relations -- some studies have found that girls who participate in sports as much as boys perform as well as boys in spatial relations. We learn spatial relations from improving our physical skills (kind of obvious, if you think of it). There's no good evidence that the difference in spatial relations is inherent. People who write these sex differences books need to look at the LATEST evidence. Since men currently make significantly more money than women and go into more prestigious careers, any defending of the status quo (through saying that these differences are "inherent") will benefit men and boys, not women and girls.

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