Gender differences in education
Introduction
The differences given in education between men and women arises from an early age, where the basis of their education begins to form with their first teachers who are their mothers. Boys and girls begin to learn their functions that society imposes them and presented them in the future according to their sex and their social class, which is why girls remained at home with their mothers and boys the opposite the opposite came out with theirParents, with this they achieved that at the end of the day children learn what was implemented in society according to their sex, what they can or not and the proper way in which they have to behave according to the norms of society.
Developing
Education in the Middle Ages was a set of religious principles and at the same time lay. Education was divided into levels: on the first level there is no difference in education between boys and girls, since the initiation of the word and life in society is the same for both sexes. In this first educational level, social behavior was mainly taught and this should be attached with what society proposes, these are learned in a practical way and follow the guidelines or norms of their family circle.
In the world of education after the first level, two levels are approximated at these two levels, differences in education can already be found. They focus fundamentally on instruction and wisdom, on these two levels you are not only learned empirically and practically unlike the first level, it entails more things as the theoretical is how the theoretical is, however, the practice is still fundamental, but does not have thesame importance as in the first level, instruction is more connected with empirical learning this means that it is more practical.
And wisdom is influenced by theoretical learning. In the instruction it was achieved that boys and girls from specific knowledge acquire masters to respond to the needs and functions presented by society in different social groups. The masters who are previously appointed in the subject of instruction refers to knowledge that are empirical that are achieved with the practice of the functions that must be fulfilled.
In the case of men, they concentrated more on the work activities assigned according to their social class, for the men who were in the noble class their main function was to devote themselves to war and the army, if man belonged to themiddle class were dedicated to commerce and crafts and final.
In the case of women, the instruction they had to follow focused on housework from a very early age and when their own family formed this responsibility was of greater intensity, in this way children understood their role in society. In the instruction the following knowledge were found:
Reading, writing and arithmetic learning this was of great help to access the third level that is wisdom and this has a focus mainly that the person develops through their knowledge of their own scientific thinking, it should be noted that access to Reading in the Middle Ages was difficult to access by different issues that one of them is religion and on the other hand at that time it was thought that reading was not important for the social demands that were presented at that time.
It was because of humanism that they made changes and began to reth Very few women who could access these resources such as nuns or religious and on the other hand the women who were secular who belonged to the Court had the possibility of accessing a complex education, humanism thought that children and children should be taught Girls equally due to this thought changes were achieved.
conclusion
Finally, it can be said that in the Middle Ages there were great differences in education between men and women, where the three levels of learning indicated: education, instruction and wisdom was demonstrating the differences in each one where it was shown that in the firstLevel education was empirical and it was the same for boys and girls.
On the second level, education between men and women was changing drastically because each one was taught what was appropriate and what they had to do according to their sex and the demands of society and in the third and final level that was theWisdom was almost nil the participation of women in this, since they thought it was not necessary for women to learn the skills of wisdom because they should only be prepared for domestic functions.
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