Journal Table Three

Maddy Burns

Important Societal Factors/Significant Course Content

Observations from Field Notes


A) How do you see gender scripts (Cite C) Cite Norma Gonzalez as you describe
specific author arguments, examples, the ethnographic tools and investigation
and page numbers from the Sadkers strategies you are using (or will use) to
Miseducation of boys reading!!) and/or identify the specific Funds of Knowledge
Gender Strategies (Cite specific author (knowledge base, skill sets, activities,
arguments, examples, and page numbers sociocultural experiences, household
from the AAUW How girls negotiate member labor histories, or social
school reading) operating for respondents networks) that exist in the home and/or
in your Clinical site? (Cite specific author community of the learner or set of learners
arguments, examples, and page numbers you chose to work with in your clinical
from the said Gender readings, the Judith setting?
Lorber reading, the Gender Discussion
PPT on D2L, as well as your own Norma Gonzalez suggests in the article Funds of
research/graphic on Gender in your Knowledge, that making home visits is one of the best
licensure area) are significant? ways to understand your students funds of
knowledge. She explains that by physically being in the
It is not hard to see these gender constructs being child home and typical outside of school setting,
furthered in schools. It is typical to see boys pushed teachers get a different and more accurate
towards boy things and girls pushed towards girl representation of what the child knows and what
things as Lorber discusses in Night to His Day. At my experiences they may have had. For example, in the
site, I have the advantage of working at a STEM school; article Beyond Beads and Feathers, Cathy Amanti talks
so all the kids are being taught the sciences, technology, about an experience she had where she learned her
engineering, and math as the focus of the school. We do students knew a lot about horses and was able to
not have very many gender specific toys or games at our incorporate that into the curriculum.
sight and the kids often choose a variety of books so I
really do think we do a good job of making this more I would really like to use home visits in the future to
gender neutral. One area I do see room for understand my students better, but the most difficult
improvement is with discipline of kids. Typically our the part is making the step from the classroom into the
more naughty kids are the boys, but I think a lot of that home, because it can be a very uncomfortable
comes from the fact that our rules make a lot of the transition for the teachers and parents especially in
games and activities they want to do not allowed. And bigger cities. I do, however, think it is worth getting
often times these are things they would be completely past this discomfort to create a much better learning
allowed to do if they were not at Key Kids, but for the opportunity for the child, both in school and at home.
safety of all the students we cannot allow them to do it.
This is one of the issues Sadker addresses in The
Miseducation of Boys. There is a common assumption
that boys are troublemakers and girls are sweethearts, D) Use your Annotated Bibliography
which puts completely unfair expectations and biases Updated 2016 6 Sources PDF to
on young boys. discuss requirement C in any 2 of the 6
resources that you will use to engage in
the investigations that you just
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Maddy Burns
B) How do your Developmental and/or discussed in #3.
learning theorists learned in EDFD
400/401 help you think about why you see Amy Hornby-Uribe, Spanish Professor and
specific gender scripts (Sadkers reading) Advisor at Winona State University
and/or gender strategies (AAUW reading)
being exhibited by the learner or set of Professor Uribe teaches my Spanish class where
learners you are observing? she has helped me to better understand the
experience of the Latinx population in the United
One example of this is Albert Bandura and his States and the effect their experiences has on the
theory of Social Learning. There are many mental state and attitudes of many Latinx people.
stereotypes that are perpetuated in todays society She is also my Spanish advisor and a great
that are slowly being broken, but the majority still resource for connecting with the community,
stands. For example, men most notably hold finding resources, and getting answers for various
positions of power, and careers that involve people questions.
and care and nurturing are commonly those filled
with women. While this does not mean there are
not powerful women or caring men, it is the way
society has operated for centuries and ever so Sharina Kuhn, 3rd grade teacher at Madison
slowly it is changing. But for children growing up, Elementary School
they consciously or subconsciously take note of the
fact that this is way things are. Sharina teaches in the Spanish Immersion
program and works with students in kindergarten
It also could stem from one of Deweys four distinct through third grade. She studied in Spain for a
areas of instinct or interest, the year and is a great connection between Spanish
communication/conversational area. This are and education. She has been very helpful with tips
includes social instinct, which children may pick up and advice for education, but also for advice with
from their parents, peers, other adults around the Spanish program, the language, and study
them, and even TV and other media influences. abroad options.

Optional, Related question with #3: What
relationship can you see between these gender
scripts/gender strategies and the educational
climate experienced by GLBTQ students, as
indicated by both the GLSEN National School
Climate Survey (See D2L Sexual Orientation
Module) and your own observations in the Clinical
site?