Law in Education Research Paper

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Jennifer in this situation?

Two factors could be affecting Jennifer based on the description of case. First, the learning environment is not conducive for Jennifer because of the gender stereotypes. Moreover, Jennifer has once been the victim of sexual harassment making her to be uncomfortable among male counterpart in the classroom. Essentially, gender stereotype plays a critical role in the classroom environment where male students dominate the classroom. In a classroom where male students outnumber female students, male students will be portrayed as brave, inventive, and active, while female students will be portrayed as being dependent. Within Jennifer's classroom environment, male students' activities will capture more of the teachers' attention than female counterpart will. Thus, the male students will receive more praise, more behavioral reprimands and more academic help than female students. (NCWGE, 2002).

Sexual harassment is another factor affecting Jennifer, and sexual harassment has a negative effect on education lives and student emotions. For example, nearly half of the students who experience sexual harassment are likely talk less in school, be uncomfortable in the presence of male counterpart and hard to pay attention in the classroom.
(NCWGE, 2002).The evidence shows that Jennifer is likely to be a victim of sexual harassment.

"What should the teacher do?"

The teacher should focus equal attention on male and female students in the classroom. Moreover, the teacher should deliver equal praise for male and female counterpart and should not focus more attention on male students than female students. Doing so will make female students feeling that they are less important in class. Thus, the teacher should deliver equal attention, praise and criticism to male and female learners.

To address the problem of sexual harassment, the teacher should use part of his or her time to teach student about the negative effect sexual harassment in the classroom environment. The teacher should make the students to….....

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