Issues Paper The purpose of this paper is for us, as beginning teachers, to become better informed on the major issues that are associated with literacy education. More importantly it is asked that this paper focus on a specific topic related to literacy education. For this the author has chosen the topic of boys and literacy. The first question that this raises is why focus on boys and literacy, as opposed to the literacy of girls? The answer lies in a multitude of statistics, observations, remarks and interpretations about boys' literacy, and education in general, and its impact on both the ...

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... his own children that we can see the developmental stages in children and we can realise just how crucial and how much we learn about the subject studied during observations. Watching these children communicate their feelings through play will help to confirm gender role socialisation. According to Taylor ... trouble, whilst girls should be sweet and innocent rarely getting into trouble. Our society seems to have traditional views and attitudes surrounding being a boy or a girl, and these stereotypes influence our everyday behaviour. More or less a child is treated differently by adults...

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... are providing opportunities because the law mandates it, or because it is the right thing to do" (p.98) Boys on Girl Teams, Girls on Boy Teams Generally speaking, I think most would agree that in high school sports, it's usually a girl that wants to play on the boys' team and ... the boys' team, then shouldn't it be permitted? While it's understandable for the girl to seek opportunities in order to improve and get better, what about the team she is leaving behind? As I mentioned above, there is a need for further development of sporting opportunities for all girls. Hilary Findlay, an ......

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... friends, family and even strangers identify the sex of the child. Baby boys are dressed in blue and baby girls are dressed in pink. The baby boy may be dressed in a blue jumpsuit with a football or a baseball glove on it. The baby girl may wear a bow in their hair and flowered pajamas. As ... is given a miniature basketball and a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls an d doll clothes to dress them up in. Even going further, eventually the boy may play with Legos and Lincoln Logs and the girl gets a PlaySchool oven and a plastic tea set with which to play house. Sounds pretty normal ...

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... statement like this is a result of the public discourse in American society. If a girl goes out to play with the boys, she is called a "tom boy." Instead, she should be playing house pretending to have a family consisting of a mother, father, and a baby. Television shows such as "Leave it to Beaver ... like the microwave and the dishwasher are meant to be used by females (442). Looking through a magazine, you will see an ad of a boy playing Gameboy. In this instance, the message is right in the title of the machine. Boys tend to get more into video games like Nintendo ... and Gameboy. "...

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... friends, family and even strangers identify the sex of the child. Baby boys are dressed in blue and baby girls are dressed in pink. The baby boy may be dressed in a blue jumpsuit with a football or a baseball glove on it. The baby girl may wear a bow in their hair and flowered pajamas. As ... is given a miniature basketball and a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls an d doll clothes to dress them up in. Even going further, eventually the boy may play with Legos and Lincoln Logs and the girl gets a PlaySchool oven and a plastic tea set with which to play house. Sounds pretty normal ...

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... ironically they incorporate basic feminine biologic functions that men lack. Secondary socialisation then acts in the later stages of a boy's life to reaffirm society's beliefs about masculinity. As boys grow older, their bodies develop and they enter junior high and high school. At this point ... fitness comes the continued advent of athletic prowess. How often are men asked "Did you see the game last night?" or "How about them Leafs?" In the work place and social groupings, men often turn the topic of conversation to athletic events, enthralled by the topic ... to the truly importan...

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... and women perform differently. Another example that is more modern is men and women in the early 1900's (1900-1918). Women's fashion was all about coverage and simplicity, the attitude was very solemn. Following along with the world's current issues and once again influenced how society behaved. However directly ... our culture is and how it's constantly changing. In what way is the accepted behaviors affecting our future generation, our children? Using two children one boy and one girl, I'll show what "proper" behavior is costing our kids. Take a girl she is ten years old and enjoys play...

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... and women perform differently. Another example that is more modern is men and women in the early 1900's (1900-1918). Women's fashion was all about coverage and simplicity, the attitude was very solemn. Following along with the world's current issues and once again influenced how society behaved. However directly ... our culture is and how it's constantly changing. In what way is the accepted behaviors affecting our future generation, our children? Using two children one boy and one girl, I'll show what "proper" behavior is costing our kids. Take a girl she is ten years old and enjoys play...

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... is a young black man of seventeen whose family is indebted to the plantation on which they live. As such, he is forced to work as a plow-boy for a measly two dollars a month to help support his family. This awful situation of poverty and almost no hope for a future makes Dave little more ... that "one of these days he was going to get a gun and practice shooting, then they couldn't talk to him as though he were a little boy." (Wright 275) Proof in itself that he has not yet matured, Dave truly believes that simply owning a tool of such power will suddenly and unarguably turn ... 281) How...

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... modern mankind. According to an article by professor Darren Rosenbalm, by using the traditional standards of assigning a newborn baby either male or female we are ignoring everything contemporary science knows about sex, namely that many factors of sex difference - chromosomal, genital and hormonal, instead make sex a far richer set of possibilities than just male or female. Likewise, contemporary psychology tells us ... onto my ground for some time but gave way to my boyish tendencies, at least once I reached high school. I strongly believe it was because I started to like boys, and wh...

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... the time, based on Sax's story, seems to be a focus on gender-neutrality. One striking example of this was the story about Professor John Money's recommendation for a boy to be raised as a girl and his surety of the idea that differences between boys and girls are a result of social constructs ... as it examines an important factor in the biological determination of sex, the brain. The previous chapter touched on this subject with some mentions about how females have more developed hearing than males. It turns out, there are many more characteristics that the brain determines than just he...

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... done by a team project for COMM 512 and for Oregon State University,girl's toys teach girls to stay at home, to sit and play quietly; boy's toys teach boys to go out, take things apart, and put them together and move things around? (Watkins and Hu, 25). Because of this ... survey done by the same team project for Oregon State University, 40% of the people interviewed said that they would buy a truck or a car for a boy; 60% said they would buy a doll for a girl. Everything that surrounds kids is filled with hidden messages that contribute to the differences between the two genders. ... th...

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... the combination of X and Y chromosomes, leads to the development of a male offspring. Each chromosome contains thousands genes and each gene contains specific information about how part of the body will be formed. Genes are responsible for almost every aspect of the human body, from hair colour to the development ... and other environmental factors, help shape our sexuality/gender. A study by John Money, determined that it was environmental factors that helped a young Jewish boy (one of identical twins) establish his sexuality after having his penis damaged during a circumcision operatio...

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... of chauffeur and servant to owner and man. This is a goal in his own mind, but will take him over the wall of being a man. The Boy Scouts organization teaches young boys to be an "independent man". Things had to be made masculine or else there was doubt in its truth (Gilmore 18). This way ... wants to do it on his own. He will be a man with this job and it will be legitimate. This lesson of man is not limited to the Boy Scouts. In America, even down to the framework of our country is based on the power of man and the "masculine mystique" (Dubbert 2). Walter sees the ... stress as a means...

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... name Ganymede. The name Ganymede has social and literary connotations and suggests male to male desire. Ganymede was a young boy from mythology that Jove fell in love with. The boy replaced Jove's wife as his lover. In Shakespearean times the name Ganymede was used to describe a male prostitute and ... one can find more evidence of their deep relationship when they are discussing Orlando (Greenblatt, ed., pp 1634-1635). They are in deep conversation about Orlando and Rosalind is "singing his praises" to Celia. Rosalind says she loves his hair, his and his love. Celia replies that his ha...

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... of a Puerto Rican mother and Caucasian father. In one example, she is asked to a dance by a white boy she has been interested in for quite some time. Ecstatic about the dance, she spends a whole week preparing for that night, only to be dumped by the boy because his father has pointed out that she was Puerto Rican and they live "like rats." This ... boy obviously liked her for who she was and did not attach any sort of stigma to her color ... hurt. Gender equality ceases to exist, and it can never exist. Men and women were not created equal, rather opposite to balance each other out. A...

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... self-concept is a result of the multitude of ideas, attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs to which he is exposed (Witt 1997). From the outset of a boy's life he is socialized into the belief that he should be 'tough'. Often when boys get hurt, 'scrape their knee', or come whimpering to their ... 's work' such as cooking and cleaning, etc. Other factors help to perpetuate certain standards expected of men and boys (Stearns 1990). The violence boy's witness on television further legitimates this belief. Katz explains that advertising imagery equates masculinity with violence. For boys this mea...

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... should not be overlooked. Foods and drinks symbolize the friendship or kinship among the Gikuyu people. It is custom to always share food among the age-groups. Kenyatta states, "No boy can eat or drink by himself what has been brought to him such an act would be severely punished (Kenyatta 151)." During every Gikuyu celebration or ceremony, an animal is ... are raised to share husbands. It is believed that the average man has two wives in the Gikuyu marriage system. Kenyatta does not argue whether Europeans were right or wrong about polygamy. His main objective was to describe the marri...

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... no respect for women, and expect to be dominant. They feel betrayed by their own socializing. They wonder what it says about them, that they would believe, like, and even feel attracted to a girl trying to pass herself off as a boy. The rape of Teena Brandon was an act by the two men to reestablish the familiar order of gender and power ... . To elaborate on the question of what Lana really knew about Brandon and when, did she not know because she did not want to??? Roger Ebert ... out by eliminating an entire gender group? I would assume that not many do. Lana obviously had an open min...

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... qualities. Cooper Thompson argues the negative side "the traditional view of masculinity." The costs of masculinity are enormous. Believing that a boy should be tough (aggressive, competitive, and daring) can create emotional pain, as well as short term success and little security in the long ... run. This false view of competing to be the toughest boy can also lead to increased chance of stress, physical injury, and even early death. In contrast, nurturance, a quality not valued because it ... many human traits are determined both by environmental and biological factors. Since the env...

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... after numerous laws have been passed to bring an end to racism. White privilege is more complicated because it usually happens without anyone thinking about it. If institutional racism and white privilege did not exist, the difference between unemployment rates of blacks and whites would be significantly lowered, ... a baby is announced either during an ultrasound or at birth. When parents find out the sex of their newborn, they immediately associate the words "boy " and "girl " with society's perceptions of gender. Parents choose clothing for their children according to the assigned ti...

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... biological and evolutionary psychologists , social constructivists believe that "gender" is not necessarily determined by our sex, rather it is a socially constructed set of ideas about what it is to be male or female and then taken on and acted upon in order to fully belong to that group which we naturally belong. Social ... whether we are male or female, before the birth older siblings may be asked whether they want a brother or sister, there are either boy or girl birth cards, many people delay buying many clothes until they know the sex or buy and make clothes they feel neutral and c...

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... time with the repetition of the phrase "love getaway- in the background. Most often the "backup- singers are female, but as in songs by modern day "boy bands- like Backstreet Boys and *N Sync, there are one or two "lead- singers while the others create backup for them. A person's voice can be noted ... have to be sweet and pretty, they just have to be themselves. Males tend to want to be emotionally independent, and try to not think too hard about tough situations. One modern example of this is Justin Timberlake and a song entitled "Cry Me A River."" Throughout this entire song Justin's...

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... which can vary from "500 Greatest Songs," to "100 Best Albums of the Nineties," and even to "50 Greatest Boy Band Songs of All Time." When looking at Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists," their top ten, in ascending order, includes: ... of this generation now believe that they must integrate sex into their image in order to be noticed, but what about the females who do not care about manufacturing their looks? Are the female artists who are not advocates of sexual objectification supposed to be repressed into the ... -bottling. No matter the circumstance, the argument towards the ex...

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