Pedagogy of gender: male and female education and human reality
Pedagogy of gender: male and female education and human reality

Summary/Abstract: The difference in gender is today a primary epistemological key. Males and females form part of the same human reality; they are the plural expression of the same singular reality. Such plurality is and happens progressively commencing from birth. All of this is affirmed by an almost unanimous chorus of researchers. Physical and psychological differences characterize the two genders specifically in the educational environment, determining diverse learning times and styles for boys and girls. Differences, and let us be clear about this, which cannot ever become qualitative hierarchies in accordance with ancient-positivistic criteria. Differences which, instead, express the duality in the development of human reality, which, through their bipolarity, give life to two human diversities on which they base themselves, evolve and specify male and female identities. This shared principle, nevertheless, does not go together with a consequential logic for a distinct approach to the two sexes by those who work in educational agencies: in schools, for instance, teachers are not always able to exactly understand the differences in learning between the male and female gender.

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