miércoles, 3 de noviembre de 2010

"let's face it - men and boys just have different brains from women and girls"

In many studies said that for scientific findings apparently to show that men and women think differently due to a different brain development. There are functional and morphological differences between the male and female brain. The male brain is larger, for instance, and when is comes to language, the relevant areas of the brain are more strongly activated in females. But determining what these differences mean is extremely difficult. No study to date has shown gender-specific processes involved in building up neuronal networks during learning.
The terms feminine brain and masculine brain refer to ways of being described in cognitive terms rather than to any biological reality. Some authors said that men tend to be more methodical (ability to understand mechanical systems) and women better communicators (ability to communicate and understand others).
Even if it were established that, on average, a girl's brain makes her less capable of learning mathematics, would this be grounds to propose education specialized to these difference? If the goal of education were to produce intensely specialized human beings, the question may be worth at least considering but so long as its most important role continues to be to create citizens with a basic culture, such a question loses its relevance for educational policy. Where differences can be shown to exist, they will be small and based on averages. The much more important individual variation are such as to rule out being able to know if a young girl, taken at random, will be less capable of learning a particular subject than a young boy taken at random.
Man and women have the same possibility to learn but they aply that of differents ways.

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