respect du travail manuel, et plus profondément, leur compréhension de l'identité masculine. Je vois dans ces formations techniques un reflet de la transmission du savoir qui s'opérait entre hommes dans les sociétés traditionnelles. Une affirmation masculine revigorante à une époque où les hommes, principales victimes des bouleversements du monde du travail, semblent avoir quelques problèmes d'identité...
Leonard Sax en 6 dates
1960 Naissance à Reno, dans le Nevada. 1980 Bachelor Degree de biologie du Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1986 Doctorat de médecine et de psychologie de l'Université de Pennsylvanie. 2005 Publication de Why Gender Matters (Pourquoi le genre a une importance) et Une de Time Magazine.2007 et 2010 Sortie de Boys Adrift (Les Garçons à la dérive) puis de Girls on the Edge (Les Filles en danger).
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Education des garçons et des filles : les analyses de Leonard Sax
What he believes :
In their book The Maiden King: the reunion of masculine and feminine, Robert Bly and Marion Woodman describe how each girl must work out for herself what "feminine" will mean for her, what kind of woman she will be; and likewise, each boy must discover and create what "masculine" will mean for him.
Most enduring cultures of which we have any record have taken this process -- the process of transition to a gendered adulthood -- very seriously. We ignore it. Indeed American parents seldom speak to their children at all about the meaning of womanhood or manhood (as opposed to generic, un-gendered adulthood). Most parents today don't know what to say.
But girls still want to know, What does it mean to be a woman? Boys still want to know, What does it mean to be a man? We don't tell them. As a result, the marketplace fills the vacuum, providing "the ready-made masculine and the ready-made feminine" (Bly & Woodman, p. xvii), which are caricatures of the real thing; but young people don't recognize them as caricatures, because they have received no guidance. The result is a growing proportion of girls who are anxious, depressed, and tired; girls who can tell you a great deal about what they do but not so much about who they are. Likewise, we find a growing proportion of boys who are disengaged not only from school but from the real world. Those boys are comfortable in the virtual world, where they play their online video games, and/or surf the net for photographs of girls.
Understanding these problems, and working toward practical solutions that can be put in place today by every parent and every teacher -- that's what my second book Boys Adrift and my third book Girls on the Edge are all about.
Leonard Sax MD PhD
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