The Minds of Boys

Michael Gurian 지음

Jossey-Bass 2010년 12월 14일 출간

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Michael Gurian's blockbuster bestseller The Wonder of Boys is the bible for mothers, fathers, and educators on how to understand and raise boys. It has sold over 400,000 copies, been translated into 17 languages, and sells over 25,000 every year, which is more than any other book on boys in history. To follow up on this first book, which launched the boy's movement, he has now written this revolutionary new book which confronts what he and a lot of other parents and teachers in this country truly believe to be a quot;boy's crisisquot;. Here are the facts: Boys today are simply not learning as well as girls Boys receive 70% of the Ds and Fs given all studentsBoys cause 90% of classroom discipline problems80% of all high school dropouts are boysMillions of American boys are on Ritalin and other mind-bending control drugsOnly 40% of college students are boysAnd three out of four learning disabled students are boysSo what can we do?Gurian has the answer in this enormously fascinating and practical book which shows parents and teachers how to help boys overcome their current classroom obstacles by helping to create the proper learning environment, understand how to help boys work with their unique natural gifts, nurture and expand every bit of their potential, and enabling them to succeed in life the way they ought to.Gurian presents a whole new way of solving the problem based on the success of his program in schools across the country, the latest research and application of neuro-biological research on how boys' brains actually work and how they can learn very well if they're properly taught.Anyone who cares about the future of our boys must read this book.

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Acknowledgments.Introduction.Part One: Protecting the Minds of Boys.1 The Current Crisis.Is There Really a Crisis?Understanding and Fixing the Crisis.The Next Step.2 How Boys Learn.A New Science.Boy Energy.The Mismatch Between Boys and Conventional Education.Confronting an Educational Myth.Ending the Myth of Gender Plasticity and Supporting the Way Boys Actually Learn.A Boy-Friendly Model for Protecting the Minds of Boys.Becoming Practical.Part Two: Starting Boys Out in Boy-friendly Learning Environments.3 Helping Boys Learn Before they Begin School.Protecting the Learning Potential of a Young Brain.Building Bonding and Attachment.Boys' Special Attachment Issues.Ten Strategies to Promote Attachment.The Importance of Emotions in a Boy's Early Education.The Core Philosophy of Choice Making.Promoting Verbal Development in a Young Boy.Balancing a Boy's Fine and Gross Motor Development.Calming the Hidden Stressors in a Boy's Life.4 Effective Preschool and Early Learning Environments for Boys.Providing a Boy-Friendly Learning Environment.Boys and Sensory Issues.Brain Breaks.Music and the Brain.The Outdoor Classroom.Do You Have to Use Your Words to Use Your Brain?5 Removing Key Environmental Stressors from Boys' Lives.Promoting Brain Health.Brain Injuries.Screen Time: TVs, Videos, Video Games, Computers.What a Boy Eats and Drinks.The Beauty of Brain Health.Part Three: Teaching School Curricula in Boy-friendly Ways.6 Helping Boys Learn Reading, Writing, and Language Arts.What Parents Can Do.What Teachers Can Do.Do Heroes Read and Write?7 Helping Boys Learn Math and Science.Relevance!What Parents Can Do to Help Boys Learn Math.What Teachers Can Do to Help Boys Learn Math.What Parents Can Do to Help Boys Learn Science.What Teachers Can Do to Help Boys Lear

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Michael Gurian is the New York Times best-selling author of The Wonder of Boys and nineteen other books, including A Fine Young Man, The Good Son, The Wonder of Girls, and Boys and Girls Learn Differently! He is a pioneer in the fields of family development and education and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, CNN, NPR, and in the New York Times, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere.Kathy Stevens is the training director of the Gurian Institute and has worked in education, child development, and the nonprofit world for more than thirty years in programs as diverse as juvenile and adult corrections, teen pregnancy prevention, cultural competency training, domestic violence prevention, and women's issues.