Neuvel decidió estudiar a fondo a qué se debe ese llamado “problema de los chicos”. Después de dos años y muchas noches de trabajo apareció su libro: Por qué los chicos no son chicas; lo que hay que saber cuando se educa a chicos. La conclusión del libro es poco esperanzadora para padres…
The Minds of Boys includes ways for every parent to understand and influence how their own boy is doing in terms of the correct learning environment, how boys are motivated, how to use the arts and athletics to teach boys (whether or not they are sensitive boys, aggressive boys, restless or bored…
Para alcanzar una verdadera igualdad de oportunidades para ambos sexos ¿hay que tratar a niñas y niños de la misma manera?, ¿en todas las ocasiones y en todos los momentos evolutivos?. ¿Son igualdad y difererencia aspectos irreconciliables en materia educativa? ¿Es la educación mixta un…
The author is Dr. Leonard Sax, executive director of NASSPE. In the book, Dr. Sax draws on recent research to demonstrate that differences in how girls and boys learn are far more substantial and far more important than most of us ever imagined. The book presents all the latest information about…
(Boys Adrift will be published on August 13 2007) Here is how Dr. Sax summarizes his second book, Boys Adrift: I have been a practicing physician for 21 years. For the past 17 years, I have worked in a suburb of Washington DC. Ten years ago, I began noticing something odd. I'd find a…
In the spring of 2007, Dr. Abigail James, a member of the NASSPE Advisory Board, published her book "Teaching the Male Brain." Dr. James' first book was more than 30 years in the making, because she has 30 years of classroom experience as a teacher - plus her doctoral work in education at the…
Based on William Pollack's groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere over two decades, Real Boys explores this generation's "silent crisis"; why so many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. Pollack challenges…
