Les effets perverse cohabitation between boys and girls are highlighted by the work of sociologists. Separation experiments are conducted in other developed countries, but in France, the mix is a value that is also rooted secularism.
They are three girls sitting on the railing outside the gates of their school in Paris. Tight jeans, makeup mouth. Ultra-feminine. "If there were no guys? One would think even more, says Julie, laughing provocative. And then the girls is supermesquin: jealousy, gossip ... But beside her, Mylène moderates: "In Indeed, it might be less harsh. Ugly girls, or those that are not popular, it must be very powerful for them, the eyes of boys. "And the third conclusion, philosopher:" It depends what you're looking at high school. If you want to work, obviously it's better to not be too distracted by the rest. "Julie and her friends have a hard time imagining these distant and barbarous where girls and boys were separated. They do not even know that it is a claim of diversity in the university town of Nanterre, which eventually engulf the spring of 1968. The mix for them is obvious. As it was long in France, since the law made it mandatory Haby in 1975, making it something as important as secularism in the French Republican edifice.
But the brightest evidences one day ends up being called into question. And the mix is no exception. When the very serious sociologist Marie Duru-Bellat, author of books touted by all the tenants of progressivism school and unsuspected drift reactionary published this summer in the journal of the OFCE (French Observatory Economic Conditions) an article entitled "What the mix is the students' debate, very fast, comes alive. Especially since the French Review of Education is preparing to publish in turn supervised by the same researcher, an issue devoted to this subject.
Best results for girls
Before that, any questioning, and even any question about the effects of coeducation seemed intolerable. Michel Fize, author in 2003 of the Traps coeducational schools (Presses de la Renaissance) has suffered the consequences. Since then, his argument has flourished, however: all studies show, girls perform better in school, all social categories, although the gaps widen gradually as one moves down the social ladder, but they have a lower opinion of themselves than boys, see themselves as less brilliant, and moving mostly towards educational little valued. "All teachers will tell you, says Francis Portz, professor of history and geography, girls are less in an attitude of opposition against the system. It must be said that the images of achievement of manhood that offers boys go through football, not by the school. "As a result, more boisterous boys, and teachers who give them 56% of their time, against 44 % girls.
Worse, some are concerned about the potentially deleterious effect of the mixed school for boys. "We must stop believing that children are angels sexless, Jean-Louis Auduc protests, deputy director of the IUFM Créteil and author of Save the boys! (Descartes & Cie, 2009). Upon learning reading, we see that girls are doing better. Because learning is divided into different times, statement, execution, verification, correction and finishing. But the girls learn early to perform tasks such as helping set the table ... They have integrated this process. Boys, especially in popular areas are often raised as little kings and are therefore not prepared to role as students. Upon discovery of sexual difference, about 5-6 years, the boy is tempted to conclude that the school is for girls. "To this difference cultural difference can add a natural, that of an earlier puberty in girls, which may, in adolescence, disrupt some boys.
"In 2003, recalls Michel Fize, I was booed because I wrote that there are physiological differences between girls and boys, and could be taken into account at certain times development. But anyway, things have changed. "Because many do not know, but since 2008, the mix is no longer compulsory in France. The transcript of a European directive on discrimination has allowed to introduce into law the authorization of the development mix for some lessons.
The Act of May 15, 2008 moved the advocates of gender equality because it coincided with claims of religious groups to return to this fundamental principle of the school organization. It's still that fear that limits debate on the issue. And that makes France an exception since the single-sex schools have been in the 2000s, various experiments in the United States, Canada, Germany or Great Britain. United States, George Bush had authorized these experiments The results were considered very positive for the female minority. Yet these girls were all "volunteers, thereby distorting the assessment. But the claim came from many radical feminists wanting girls out of sexual determinism that religious extremists. In Germany, where he was to develop single-sex education, physical science or computer science, the results were very positive for girls, even if their reintegration into regular classes where they were faced with stereotypes reinforced, was difficult.
In France, where there is no Anglo-Saxon tradition of separation of sexes in social space, only the private non-contract develops, very marginal, single-sex classes. In Catholic teaching contract, where single-sex education has gradually become scarce, we want to be prudent. Claude Berruer, deputy secretary general of Catholic education, "we must be aware that coeducation does not necessarily contribute to the equal dignity boy-girl. But a reversal would not be the solution. Of course, we have families, including Muslims, who expressed reservations and put your finger on ways to live the mix that does not respect the modesty. It laments the sexism, but we must reflect on what you give to see the body of the report in our societies. "And indeed, some single-sex classes of private schools under contract are frontrunners.
Respect the sensitivity of adolescents
Thus, the famous hotel Saint-Jean-de-Passy, in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, a former high school boys opened to girls in primary education, then for college and high school. But the choice was made at college, keep single-sex classes. "We always thought there was a complementarity of the sexes, advocates Marie-Odile Idrac, who runs the facility for a year. We build long periods of mixing, during meals, recess, but we wanted to develop an original approach, respecting the sensitivity of adolescents. "And in the reviews are mixed, the girls escaped with an average of two points more than boys.
In Stanislaus College, in the Sixth District, is allowed choice to students. Philip, whose son came in 4th this year, said: "In his old college, Clement was classified as" nerd. " He was harassed by boys, girls often driven by more mature they wanted to impress. But Stanislas, he is finally in a mixed class, and this poses no problem. For one simple reason: everyone is there to work, to learn. Boys and girls play the game because they know that if they are fired. "
the other side of the social ladder, Rebrab Murad, a professor at Belfort also observed that problems related to mixed primarily reveal deficiencies of the school. "The girls are on average better, but they are more fragile. We see that switch and become unmanageable as a result of serious family problems, because nobody is there to listen. Home, they do not exist. There was no solution, they are excluded because the college does not know a single handle deviant students. "The boys themselves, sink into failure and frustration. The girls have earned the right to be heard when the school was giving up the transmission profit de nouvelles pédagogie. Mieux à une absence de préparées cadre, elles s'en tirent mieux, mais au prix de relations avec les garçons dégradées et violente.
0 comments:
Post a Comment