Chapter 2
Within the context of Whitmire’s Chapter 2, The Reason for the Boy Troubles: Faltering Literacy Skills, he explains the newly developed standards in current society have ultimately diminished the value of unexperienced or uneducated male individuals. This scenario has based upon the lower academic maturity rate for males for which they have been evidently suppressed by the ideologies of female superior academic intelligence. Because of this, fewer male individuals are unable to occupy jobs because of their inability to attend college and receive a degree. Whitmire took initiative to understand this unleveled gender gap within businesses such as Enterprise. When discussing the important of a college degree with the top recruiter for …show more content…
For one, they slightly believe that the component of a male’s biology is distinctly different from a females but they also do take note that a contributing factor maybe the way gender is defined socially and culturally in society make a tremendous impact. For example, the authors note the comparison of males becoming the inferior sex results in societal imbalance which is demonstrated as a moral threat to society. Because of this result, many of the feminization within schools provides an unfair advantage for schools as they are considered in inferior when compared to girls in standardized testing. As solution the boys’ literacy underachievement, oppressors of the feminized schooling system supports the idea of “cater[ing] to boys’ natural learning interests and strengths” (Watson, 2010). This idea includes proving more males jobs in the work place as teachers. Even though, the authors do not diminish the idea of introducing male teachers into more school, they do necessarily agree with the fact of providing more male role models will increase a boy’s literacy rate. Instead, they look to find that teacher qualifications are to be the best source of a student’s literary rather than simply determining their sex. As a matter of fact, they argue the most productive approach to the boys’ failing literacy rate …show more content…
According to Hodgetts, much of the standardized tests represent the outperforming gender as females. In addition, she highlights the media depicting higher rate of “suspension, expulsion, behavioral problems, and early school-leaving” have been the common image towards male students (Hodgetts, 2007, 466). However, Hodgetts provides a glimpse of why boys have been referenced as underachievers. She further details the possibilities by comparing the girls as passive with “passive“ subjects such as reading, listen, or copying material whereas boys are more categorized for their active persona for active subjects such as math and science. With this logic, many of the boys fail to adhere to the complexities of passive subjects thus revolving around the negative phenomenon of academic underachievement. From various tests given, boys and girls were experimented to discover what learning style they favored the most. To Hodgetts surprise, all the boys favored the kinesthetic and physical learning style meanwhile girls had a variation of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learner styles present. With continued comparisons of girls and boys to the feminized school teaching in Australia and around the world Hodgetts came to the conclusion boys would never live up the standard principles of
Within the context of Whitmire’s Chapter 2, The Reason for the Boy Troubles: Faltering Literacy Skills, he explains the newly developed standards in current society have ultimately diminished the value of unexperienced or uneducated male individuals. This scenario has based upon the lower academic maturity rate for males for which they have been evidently suppressed by the ideologies of female superior academic intelligence. Because of this, fewer male individuals are unable to occupy jobs because of their inability to attend college and receive a degree. Whitmire took initiative to understand this unleveled gender gap within businesses such as Enterprise. When discussing the important of a college degree with the top recruiter for …show more content…
For one, they slightly believe that the component of a male’s biology is distinctly different from a females but they also do take note that a contributing factor maybe the way gender is defined socially and culturally in society make a tremendous impact. For example, the authors note the comparison of males becoming the inferior sex results in societal imbalance which is demonstrated as a moral threat to society. Because of this result, many of the feminization within schools provides an unfair advantage for schools as they are considered in inferior when compared to girls in standardized testing. As solution the boys’ literacy underachievement, oppressors of the feminized schooling system supports the idea of “cater[ing] to boys’ natural learning interests and strengths” (Watson, 2010). This idea includes proving more males jobs in the work place as teachers. Even though, the authors do not diminish the idea of introducing male teachers into more school, they do necessarily agree with the fact of providing more male role models will increase a boy’s literacy rate. Instead, they look to find that teacher qualifications are to be the best source of a student’s literary rather than simply determining their sex. As a matter of fact, they argue the most productive approach to the boys’ failing literacy rate …show more content…
According to Hodgetts, much of the standardized tests represent the outperforming gender as females. In addition, she highlights the media depicting higher rate of “suspension, expulsion, behavioral problems, and early school-leaving” have been the common image towards male students (Hodgetts, 2007, 466). However, Hodgetts provides a glimpse of why boys have been referenced as underachievers. She further details the possibilities by comparing the girls as passive with “passive“ subjects such as reading, listen, or copying material whereas boys are more categorized for their active persona for active subjects such as math and science. With this logic, many of the boys fail to adhere to the complexities of passive subjects thus revolving around the negative phenomenon of academic underachievement. From various tests given, boys and girls were experimented to discover what learning style they favored the most. To Hodgetts surprise, all the boys favored the kinesthetic and physical learning style meanwhile girls had a variation of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learner styles present. With continued comparisons of girls and boys to the feminized school teaching in Australia and around the world Hodgetts came to the conclusion boys would never live up the standard principles of