Critical Analysis of Gender Segregated Education during Elementary, Middle and/or High School Years
Education has always been the foundation of the future generation thus it is one of the most crucial elements in society. It is because of this fact that education is continually scrutinized to determine its effectiveness. Many scholarly bodies continue to recreate educational systems in order to assure that the students produced by the academe is competent and well-equipped in facing the corporate world. One of the reasons why education is one of the most important elements in the society is because it determines the future of the economic welfare of a society. Thus the constant struggle for high-quality education commences.
In many years, educational systems continually rehash its structure. The experimentation in schooling started as a solution to the ever continuing worry of substandard American education (Mickelson, 2015).
The result was a to create a targeted environment for students to learn and further develop the increasing biological potential of the student. School segregating was the result of such practice. Initially, the segregation started from racial segregation to gender segregation.
One of the adverse effects of segregation to schooling is its negative sociological implication on the students. Alexander Wiseman (2008) argues that discrimination is one of the crucial effects of segregation. As some of the institutions that reinforce segregation are primary and secondary schools, this endagers the social awareness of the students. The reason behind this is Mickelson’s (2015) argument that the children were raised under circumstances that separates two types of people.
Else-Quest and Peterca (2015) also discusses that at some point, segregation does not provide a valid means standards in terms of segmenting the students. For example, both researchers concluded that gender is by no means a standard in order to evaluate the skill set of a student, as a person maintains multiple intelligences regardless of gender or race.
The compilation of studies below scrutinize the effects of segregation, in any form, on education.
The Cumulative Disadvantages of First and Second Generation Segragation for Middle School Achievement by Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
According to the proprietor of the study, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, middle schools are the foundation of higher education. With the aim of analyzing any adverse effects of segragation in middle school, the study explored two plausible elements where segregation is evident. The R.A. Mickelson studied the research’s first variable which is dubbed the First Generation Segregation. The composition of such phenomenon implies segregation of elementary and middle school racial composition. The next variable is the Second Generation Segregation which implies racially correlated academic tracks. The relationship of both variables in Mickelson’s study (2015) were correlated to reading and mathematics test scores of 8th grade students of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in 1997. Despite having studied in the state of desegregation, the students have been experiencing classroom-level segregation (Mickelson, 2015). Mickelson was able to collect survey …
