Hidden Deception Inside The Classroom Analysis

Hidden Deceptions Inside the Classroom Although I agree with the authors’ ideas about how the students struggle to communicate in the classroom and how the curriculum bypasses communication between courses, my opinion differ from Tannen’s; gender is just a factor of many others that influence the behavior of a student. The sharing of ideas is fundamental for the development of a student, in the old Greece the education used to be taught by the spoken word, so the student and teacher had more interactions and discussions, therefore the understanding of the subject was easily grasped. Ms. Deborah Tannen explain why males participate in class more often than females in her article “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently”. Meanwhile, …show more content…
It is common in our culture to tag a silent individual as “shy” or “introverted”, because it is natural to prejudge anyone who doesn’t fit in our culture. For instance, while in American culture it’s natural to create silly loud conversations and banter throughout the interaction, in other cultures such as the German or Japanese these actions would be consider disrespectful and ungracious. However, I don’t mean to imply that all Americans are extroverted or all Japanese are introverted, I mean only to exemplify how cultures differ in certain aspects. Additionally, some students remain silent and look introverted, simply because they don’t have interest in the class’ subject, many students repeat the same course several times and because they know already most of the material. Furthermore, most educators expect from the students a specific attitude. To illustrate, according to Mr. Howard Gardner, there are 8 different kinds of intelligences and each individual has a unique blend of these, some are better in math than music. Thus every student is going to behave different according to their intelligences, experiences, culture among many others