![]() ![]() So it’s crucial to understand the motivation to learn and how it works in the lives of real boys and girls. When kids believe in school, as any teacher will tell you, everything gets easier. Motivation helps explain why some countries get impressive education results despite child poverty and lackluster teaching, while others get mediocre results despite universal health care and free iPads. Motivation is the dark matter of education. If my brother studies one hour, it would be a miracle.” “These boys struggle to find a connection between school and life,” she says, “and school is increasingly seen as a waste of time.” “If I study five hours a day, it would not be enough. But for boys, especially low-income boys, access to school has not had the same effect. It propels them,” says Ridge, one of the few researchers to have written extensively about the gender gap in the Arab world. “If you give girls a quality education, they will mostly run with it and do amazing things. Disengaged boys grow up to become disillusioned men, Ridge says, left out of the progress they see around them.Īnd the gender gap in the Middle East represents a particularly extreme version of this trend. In the United Kingdom and the United States, Ridge believes she can draw a dotted line between the failure of boys to thrive in school and votes for Brexit and for Donald Trump. Natasha Ridge, the executive director of the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research in the United Arab Emirates, has studied gender and education around the world. These are all glaring disparities in a world that values higher-order skills more than ever before. In America, girls are more likely to take Advanced Placement tests, to graduate from high school, and to go to college, and women continue their education over a year longer than men. In 2015, teenage girls outperformed boys on a sophisticated reading test in 69 countries-every place in which the test was administered. It’s part of a pattern that is creeping across the globe: Wherever girls have access to school, they seem to eventually do better than boys. Or, put another way, why boys are doing so badly. This spring, I went to the Middle East to try to understand why girls are doing so much better in school, despite living in quintessentially patriarchal societies. Fewer than one in every five workers is female in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. But many Middle Eastern women do not go on to have long professional careers after graduating they spend much of their lives working at home as wives and mothers. The conventional wisdom is that girls do better in school as women acquire more legal and political rights in society. In the West, researchers have long believed that future prospects incentivize students to invest in school. This is baffling on the most obvious levels. ![]() And yet, most of those women are unlikely to put their degrees to paid use for very long. In Saudi Arabia alone, women earn half of all science degrees. In fact, across the Arab world, women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis than women in the United States. Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, author of Intersectionality: An Intellectual History.Listen to the audio version of this article: Feature stories, read aloud: download the Audm app for your iPhone. Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term “intersectionality,” and Dr. Advocating respect and inclusion, IntersectionAllies is a necessary tool for learning to embrace, rather than shy away from, difference.įeaturing gorgeous illustrations on every page by Ashley Seil Smith, as well as powerful introductions by activist and law professor Dr. When things get hard, the kids support each other for who they are: Parker defends Kate, a genderfluid character who eschews skirts for a superhero cape Heejung welcomes Yuri, a refugee escaping war, into their community and Alejandra’s family cares for Parker after school while her mother works. ![]() The group bond grounds the message of allyship and equality. The nine interconnected characters proudly describe themselves and their backgrounds, involving topics that range from a physical disability to language brokering, offering an opportunity to take pride in a personal story and connect to collective struggle for justice. The brainchild of three women-of-color sociologists, IntersectionAllies is a smooth, gleeful entry into intersectional feminism. celebration of solidarity, allyship, and community.A welcoming resource for conversations about equality and social justice that shows readers how identities are made up of myriad influences.- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A children's book about intersectionality that depicts the nuances of identity and embraces difference as a source of community. ![]()
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