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Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Mon Sep 24 00:14:56 CEST 2007
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, pueblo at 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.
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