Single-Sex Schooling and Coeducational Schooling

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Single-Sex Schooling and Coeducational Schooling Literature Review Betül Akbal TED University Single-sex schooling is separating males and females into classes but generally into buildings while educating. It had been the common education system until the 19th century mainly depending on traditional and religious reasons. Within globalization and modernization; the efficiency of single-sex schooling has been a controversial issue since the beginning of 19th century among people. Even the experts such as psychologists and educators haven’t reached a certain result regarding the fact that there are both upsides and downsides of single-gender education. Co-education also known as mixed-sex education is the educational environment where males and females are kept together. It has been popular in the last centuries as education started to become a keystone of civilization. Within the proliferation of co-educational schools, in 2002, National Association for Single Sex Public Education(NASSPE) was founded in United States encouraging all girls or all boys public education and it is continuing it’s activities today with a new name: National Association for Choice in Education (NACE). This association doesn’t particularly believe that every child should go to a single sex school but they believe that parents and children should have a choice. This association has effective missions and implementations all over the world particularly in United States. Most importantly, it is an important resource for the ongoing issue considering the observations, investigations, experiments and surveys done by the organisation. Besides NASSPE or with it’s new name NACE, American Psychological Association is a good and reliable organization since it has lead lots of investigations on single sex schooling. Diane F. Halpern, PhD, a psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College
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