MultiDisciplinary
Anterior Cruciate Ligaments
By Alexis Jenkins
Alexis Jenkins definitely is very active from the start. Sports have always been her passion; growing up, you could always catch her outside at the softball field playing with her high school, tournament team, or family. This all was until she had an almost career-ending injury occur not just once but twice. Luckily, she could continue to play two years of college softball, but she always wondered why tearing your ACL, also known as your Anterior Cruciate Ligament, was such a big deal. Now years later, she is a Senior here at Millersville studying Sports Journalism. After graduation, she plans to work her way into the ESPN world to eventually become an ESPN Broadcast Journalist.
Gender Roles in the 1800s
by Emily Hess
There is presently an imbalance in our education system. A significantly larger number of women are teachers, compared to men. This is especially visible in elementary education. There are many changes and elements throughout history causing this imbalance. In the 1800s, the United States faced a strong industrial change in production and work. Gender roles at this time became pronounced. These historic gender roles created a nation where women flocked to work in education, resulting in the present imbalance between men and women in the teaching profession.
According to Snyder and Dillow (2015) of the U.S. Department of Education, in the 2011-12 school year, 76 percent of public school teachers were female, with an even larger percent working in public elementary schools. There are many elements that have contributed to this imbalance both presently and in history. These elements include rapid industrial growth, gender expectations, and child-parent interactions in the nineteenth century. The 1800s in America saw great change, especially in male and female gender roles. It is proposed that the gender roles of this era strongly affected teaching and education.
This paper begins with discussion of the industrial growth of the 1800s and the resulting female role changes. Several pieces of literature published in the nineteenth century are then discussed as a means for describing female gender roles and responsibilities. These are compared with current viewed teacher responsibilities as a means for describing the impact 1800s gender roles had on teaching.
