When you attach some emotion and meaning to a subject, it is more difficult to forget. I have noticed that men do not do that often and constructively because of our upbringing.
When I started experiencing my emotions and trying to accept them, this attitude improved my learning skills.
Sometimes I would complain about a fact and it would cause me problems later. Hence, it is better to accept the obstacle and try to overcome it. The real courage is to face our inner demons and insecurities.
There are some gender issues involved but acceptance, and other "feminine" strategies are extremely important today.
Power struggles happen in a soft way. Overly agressive and cruel behaviour is becoming ineffective.
Frederik van Gelder My starting point is based on Belenky's work "Women's Way of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind (1986)". Even though her findings were not gender specific, they were gender related, and presented an interesting theory on women's cognitive development. I've also read studies from Gallos, Prümmer and others, but I was trying to find more recent studies along the same line.
When you attach some emotion and meaning to a subject, it is more difficult to forget. I have noticed that men do not do that often and constructively because of our upbringing.
When I started experiencing my emotions and trying to accept them, this attitude improved my learning skills.
Sometimes I would complain about a fact and it would cause me problems later. Hence, it is better to accept the obstacle and try to overcome it. The real courage is to face our inner demons and insecurities.
There are some gender issues involved but acceptance, and other "feminine" strategies are extremely important today.
Power struggles happen in a soft way. Overly agressive and cruel behaviour is becoming ineffective.
I'd be a little wary of this. Supposed findings on gender differences in psychology do not always stand the test of time, and can be culturally specific. For example Mori & Arai (2010) found a gender difference in conformity levels among Japanese college students, but other studies worldwide have not found the same thing.
Also learning styles theories in general are flawed as they assume that performance-related data is caused by inherent traits, and the evidence against such theories is now overwhelming (though not specific to gender). See e.g. Article Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence
It is very easy to be biased by stereotypes, such as the notion that women have more 'artistic brains' etc (linking to the left brain vs. right brain neuromyth). As a former school teacher I have in the past seen this used as a justification for discouraging girls to take science subjects.
Overall, perhaps the most surprising thing is how similar the way women learn is to the way men learn.
Jonathan William Firth I definitely can see your point here, I personally think that there are more similarities than differences and studies can be affected by variables other than gender for sure. I'm currently writing a literature review on the impact of online education among women, particularly traditional women or those who prioritize their roles of wife and mother. In that context, I've found that women prefer certain types of learning environment (those that foster connections and emotional support for example) and that's why I got into this theory of how women develop their knowledge and identity. I'll take a look at the article you suggested, thank you.
Nikolaos Andreopoulos Yes, definitely. Emotions and other culturally assigned feminine traits play an important role in learning and encoding. I recently read an interesting study about that by Tyng, et al "The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory (2017)".
Adriana Alba - In my own experience of learning and teaching those teachers and those authors who have had a lasting and profound effect on me and many of my generation have been those who have been able to throw light on the great controversies of the time - not those who had a 'theory' of this that or the other. (Often also from literature - Mailer, Baldwin, so many others.) Back then - I'm talking now of the early sixties - the 'big' issues were faith versus reason, religion versus science, Darwin versus Marx, democracy versus totalitarianism. Nowadays it's about the 'essentialisms' of race/class/gender. These are, just like the dominating controversies back then, sort of 'macro'-issues, they permeate everything, both within and outside of the academy. So when I'm asking you to provide the reasoning behind your unstated premiss - that women learning styles/ Women cognition development is so fundamentally different from the same thing in men that it's worthwhile to pursue this in isolation from the general topic of learning/education, what I'm after is not just for you to provide a couple of authors specific to your own reference group. (Everyone has these kinds of groups.) On an international research forum that's read around the world what I'm after is the reasoning underlying that unstated assumption. How would you 'falsify' your premiss, i.e. go about showing that there are no fundamental differences between men and women in how they learn - both in the cognitive and the emotional sense of 'learning'?
Frederik van Gelder I'm actually starting my research on the topic and so far I've explored authors/studies that suggest a difference in the way women develop cognitively. But of course my goal is to find literature in the opposite direction, that women and men have no differences in the way they learn. I'm interested in reading about both perspectives. However, I feel I need to clarify that my main research interest is not that topic, this is more like a background literature review I want to do.
I think I stated my question poorly (though it brought interesting discussions and I'm definitely learning) but my main research question is how pursuing higher education affects the well-being of traditional women. My premise is that education transforms the life of women not only from the cognitive stance but also from the emotional and even spiritual point of view.
The style should be interactive. Women are very receptive and every role-playing or brainstorming session affects their psychology. It is important to find the emotional aspects of any topic. Choose a convenient place, social circle, training time. Raise topical issues. Include it in the decision-making process. A woman loves to be the center of attention.