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A 3 page paper which reviews Deborah Tannen’s book “Gender in the Classroom.” No additional sources cited.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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which they communicate, across gender and within their own gender. She has presented discussions and examinations of how women are often misunderstood, and generally looked at the different ways in
which men and women communicate and interact. In her book "Gender in the Classroom" we are presented with the ways in which men and women differ in how they learn,
interact, and communicate in an educational setting. The following paper reviews and analyzes this work, illustrating how, according to Tannen, men and women are truly quite different in many ways.
Gender in the Classroom Tannens work notes, among other things, that men and women behave differently in that a man will use the word "I" where women will
more often say "we." Men are far more open about talking in public than women who generally talk in private groups. Men will look at their particular environment, much like
a radar, in an attempt to find threats and criticism from the outside world, wheras women will look for threats to their particular connections to others. We also note that
Tannen indicates men are more likely to talk about things like events, and women about feelings and people in their relationships. Men have a tendency to "tell" people what they
think or "tell" people what to do where women are more likely to suggest something. Tannen does recognize, however, that in our changing world men are sometimes more likely
to discuss emotions than perhaps in previous generations, and women are more likely to "tell" and otherwise act similarly to men. But, in generalities Tannen is illustrating how men and
women are quite different, for whatever reasons. Some of wht Tannen illustrates made sense to this writer in looking back on their education classes. More often than not it was
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