Journal 3

A. When comparing the gender C. Michael Genzuk argues that

scripts from the AAUW reading, I ethnography is a research method
have noticed a few similarities and that goes beyond just watching. It
a few differences then that at my is studying, doing additional
clinical site. Looking at the research, interviewing, and asking
descriptions on pages 247 and 248 more questions. He states that an
of the types of students that girls ethnography is a narrative that tells
can be. I did not experience any a story. It is a collection of
“maverick leaders” I think that with observations, charts, and
such a small teacher to student diagrams. I plan on using his
ratio it is harder for girls to act out. guides in trying to find the assets,
I did notice a majority were “school strengths, and resources that the
girl” categorized. I say this students at my clinical site
because they were on top of their possess. Dr. Wysocki mentions
homework when given extra work that we can use the students, our
time they would use it and also cooperating teacher, our advisor in
they sat quietly and took notes the content area, himself, and Dr.
during the Summit. There were a Walker as people tools. An
handful of the girls in the two additional person to interview
classes I observed that were “Play would be the staff members in the
School Girl” I say this because, for office at the school.
the most part, they would follow
the expectations but, would hint at
what their true identities. Judith
Lorber author of “The Social
Construction of Gender” talks
about how gender is perceived by
an individual, a society, and as a
system. She said, “Gendered
patterns of interaction acquire
additional layers of gendered
sexuality, parenting, and work
behaviors in childhood,
adolescence, and adulthood.” (60)
What Lorber is saying is that
gender behaviors are expected
and enforced through a person’s
life. The problem with that is
something that Maia Shepard and
J.B. Mayo Junior mention in their
article “The Social Construction of
Gender and Sexuality learning
from the Two Spirit Traditions.”
They talk about gender going
 beyond just the physical features
and going deeper into the
personality constructs. At the
clinical site, I don’t see a lot of
gender variance. It is a very
traditional school which, I believe
is going into what Lorber was
arguing, the school does not seem
to except the other genders, there
are a few students in the LBGTQ
in the whole school but, they do
not offer any clubs. Shepard and
Mayo argue that they need to bring
in the other genders into the
school and acknowledge that they
are now a part of the society.
B. When reading the AAUW reading,
I noticed that there was a strong
correlation between the “Play
School Girls” and Erik Erickson’s
fifth state of ego the “Role
Confusion.” This stage is where
when a student is still developing
who they are and where they want
to go in life. The girls know their
roles in the classroom as students
and know they need to follow the
rules, do good in school, work hard
to get good grades. At the same
time, they want others to know that
they have another side to them
that is not a “School Girl.” They
could also be in transition to the
next stage which is knowing their
higher authority and following the
rules which might be why they do
not completely act out.