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- Title
Counselor-Teacher Interface: Promoting Nonsexist Education and Career Development.
- Authors
McCormick, Theresa E.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the interface between counselors and teachers in promoting nonsexist education and career development. Although there is strong evidence that educators can be trained to change their interactions and classroom climate to be more equitable for female students' development, sex-role perceptions, stereotypes, social custom, and resistance to change are instrumental in maintaining a sex-biased social system. Teachers and counselors, being potential role models, would do well to explore their own sex-role perceptions for messages they may be conveying to students. The cultural conditioning that defines and limits women's roles not only pervades the classroom from preschool to graduate school but also is influential in counseling offices. According to the author, counselors should emphasize a balanced use of cooperative learning and problem solving instead of an exclusive use of competitive approaches in teaching. Cooperative learning is a prime sex-equity strategy to use, because it helps women overcome traditional socialization not to ask questions, not to seem to be "smart," nor to be better than others. Educators need to include both "social" and "smart" activities in programs and curricula in order to address the needs of adolescent women.
- Subjects
SEXISM in education; TEACHER-counselor relationships; TEACHER participation in educational counseling; CAREER development -- Social aspects; GROUP work in education; GENDER role
- Publication
Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, 1990, Vol 18, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
0883-8534
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.2161-1912.1990.tb00431.x