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BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN DIFFERENTLY!
A GUIDE FOR
TEACHERS AND PARENTS
(Jossey-Bass, February 2002 - paperback)
by
Michael Gurian
with Patricia Henley and Terry Trueman
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Teachers and parents alike have long intuited
that boys and girls learn differently. In this book, renowned educator
and bestselling author Michael Gurian provides the brain-based research
to prove it, and shows the reader how to improve a child's education by
knowing the very nature of his or her mind.
In Part l, combining the fields of
neurobiology, anthropology, educational psychology and sociology,
Gurian shows the reader how the growing child's brain works, how girls'
and boys' brains work differently, how hormones affect these
differences, and how acculturation influences the biology. Because
Gurian's research stretches to all continents, readers will be
intrigued to discover how worldwide are the gender learning differences
in the brain, and in homes and classrooms. Part I also looks at areas
of learning difficulty boys and girls suffer as distinct groups.
Part ll provides solutions and applications.
Gurian features innovations from around the world, but focuses
especially on innovations developed by teachers in six school districts
in Kansas City, Missouri, in which the Gurian Institute trained staff
to help boys and girls learn differently.
Learning improvement in these school
districts was marked, and their innovations fascinating. By the end of BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN DIFFERENTLY!, teachers, parents and others have a
brain-based understanding of the child they are educating, and know how
to apply what they know to distinct improvements in not only a child's
general education, but also in areas of difficulty related to being a
boy and being a girl.
©
2008 The Gurian Institute
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