Essay about Mona Lisa’s Smile Single-sex Education for...

Mona Lisa’s Smile: Single-sex Education for Girls â€Å"Men Are from Mars - Women Are from Venus,† it is the title of a bestseller book, which tells us how different boys and girls are. Single-sex education was introduced because of the huge differences, and it once flourished in the United States. Since the 1970s, however, it began to be regarded with a degree of suspicion. Many girls’ schools closed or amalgamated and the trend towards co-education continued to spread. Until nowadays, the debate between single-sex education and coeducation still carries on. Single-sex education benefits girls especially, by offering equally rigorous academic opportunities, and helping them cultivate leadership and greater confidence; yet it also creates†¦show more content†¦in NASSPE 4) The difference in the structure of the brain leads directly to the differences in the function, which results in that girls and boys process information, listen, read, and experience emotion in very different ways. For instance, if you ask a girl how to get to an elementary school, you may get the answer like, Go down A Street till you see the McDonalds. Then make a left, go past the hardware store and the station, then youll see the elementary school. A boy, giving directions to the same school, might say, Go south on A Street about two miles, then turn left so youre heading east on B Street. After one mile on B Street, you’ll get the elementary school. (qtd. in NASSPE 5) This example illustrates how girls differ from boys when they are given problems which require navigational skills. According to neuroscientists, that is because â€Å"they use different area of the brain. Girls use the cerebral cortex -- mostly the right parietal cortex -- while boys do not use the parietal cortex but instead use primarily the left hippocampus, a nucleus deep inside the brain which is not activated in the girls brains during navigational tasks.† (Grà ¶n et al 2) The brain is vital for human beings, and therefore, the gender differences in the brain affect everything, including learning style. Let’s recall what happened in the navigational skills example. Boys think abstractly, and they isolate the fact,Show MoreRelatedStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesPearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work, please submit a written request to Pearson Education, Inc