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Week Three Assignment Worksheet

Please review this assignment tutorial for help filling out this worksheet.

1) Select one aspect of culture from the list. Once you've made your selection, please delete all other options.

Education

2) Select a source to use for Part I of the paper. You will be using your textbook and the article by Miner for this part of the paper, but for this worksheet, include the source you found through your own research. Review the tutorial on Evaluating sources and enter your reference in the space below.

Reference entry in APA format:

Legewiea, J. and DiPrete. T. A., (2012). School Context and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement. American Sociological Review 77(3) 463–485 DOI: 10.1177/0003122412440802 http://asr.sagepub.com

3) Include the reference for Part II that corresponds to the topic you’ve chosen. Copy and paste the reference entry from the table (e.g., if you chose Education, you would use the article by Jonsson for Part II).

Jonsson, R. (2014). Boys' anti-school culture? Narratives and school practices. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 45 (3), 276-292. Retrieved from the AnthroSource database.

4) Summarize the main points from each of your sources. See this guide for help with summarizing your sources.

Summary of your source for Part I (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least 300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.

Article - The gender gap may be biological but others blame schools for de-masculinizing the

environment to which boys learn in. Due to the academic environment is inhibits boy’s

development and identity. These gender inequalities for males in school brought forth studies to

better understand the educational shortcomings. The study goes on to show ethnographic studies

to document the need for change in the educational gender gap. By teachers strengthening a

culture to promote learning gender neutral achievement this could have a high impact on

academic success. For everyone involved.

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1. Legewiea,

Generally speaking, I'd prefer

to see anthropology here.

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Research that has been provided, it is not all random where children and or teachers are placed in

classrooms. Granted this was a limited analysis from one state it goes on to show there is some

regression in matching these classrooms up. It took into account the socioeconomically aspect as

well as the gender issue. Even when principals were interviewed they stated that some students

who had to repeat a grade they are sometimes assigned to a specific classroom. Others have

taken parents’ wishes into account when placing children. For the most part the research has

shown that the State of Germany was looking more at the gender gap then the placement of

children for other reasons. There is a theoretical thought that by bringing gender identity and

adolescent culture into account while looking at the educational gender gap they can see the

cause and effect of the role of the environmental factors for boy’s underachievement. Boys tend

to benefit in a strong academic climate because of their own thoughts about education, they are

louder, more active and therefore appear to be underperforming. School context and resources

play a role in how boys perform as well as the gender inequality. This has broadened the

perspective on what really shapes the environment of our schools.

Summary of your source for Part II (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least 300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.

Chapter 3.2 - There is no scientific evidence that any one racial group is superior to another.

When given the same opportunities peoples abilities are the same no matter what race or

economic factor you are in. Intelligence testing can be inaccurate if you are testing with limited

criteria. It can give you false data if you are not including certain aspects of your information

into your data. Like certain variables like languages or social economic status can throw off your

data enough to get false IQ scores. Culture is another area in which IQ test questions false-

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correct answer depending on what the questions are and who they are asking. Chapter 4.6 -

Language change has occurred over time and throughout cultures. Borrowing words or phrases

has happened and will continue to happen everywhere. You can find dialects in most languages

across the world and even within the same geographical area. Surface structure of a language has

the same characteristics of other languages but it can have social or political ramifications. In the

end it goes right back to education and how we view the intelligence of people.

Article - Just as in our text, the article written by Jonsson also states the same thing, however it

is in reference to, gender in education. This article talks more in detail about males failing at

school because of the preconceived notion that school is more feminine than masculine. Anti-

school culture provides explanations into the gender differences between boys and girls.

Academic success can be attained by reversing that feeling that school is a feminine thing and

getting more men involved in teaching is one way to reverse that trend.

5) Write a working thesis statement based on your sources. See this example. Working Thesis Statement:

Language, race, social economic status, and even gender can be deciding factors in your

academic success. I will comprise an argument to prove that even though times have changed

some things remain the same when it comes to equality.

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1. education.

Here you should be

summarizing the article about

Swedish schools. [Fae

Goodman]

2. trend.

Okay, briefly...but you should

have much more here. The

assignment was to

summarize the article, not to

write about our text. [Fae

Goodman]

3. argument

This is not an argument

paper. You're being asked to

describe some aspect of

education in both your own

culture and Sweden. [Fae

Goodman]

4. will

Unless you are writing a

personal opinion or

biographical paper, avoid the

use of the personal pronouns

"I" and "you." They are

considered informal in

academic writing. See this

Writing Center page for help

with first and third-person

points of view:

http://writingcenter.ashford.ed

u/first-vs-third-person [Fae

Goodman]

5. equality.

As written, this thesis is very

general. Remember the

statements we found in week

2? You want a single clear

concise statement that tells

EXACTLY what your paper

will cover. [Fae Goodman]