ABSTRACT

The present action-research study explored the experience of a co-educational class in a context where it was a total educational novelty. Generating data from a number of sources before, during, and after the course, the study portrays how the participants experienced initial challenges followed by mutual adaptability toward the end of the course. The findings of the study indicate how the experience has been culturally emancipatory with regard to bringing about reorientations in the learners’ perceptions about the other gender. Particularly, the findings showed that the learners gradually developed a perceptual understanding regarding the social status of the other gender, mediated by the opportunities provided during the course that facilitated developing such an understanding. The study also demonstrates that the experience of this action-research study brought about relevant changes in the policies of the school and its transformational potentials for the participating learners’ future careers.

摘要

目前的行动研究探索了男女同校班级在完全教育新颖性的背景下的经历。该研究在课程之前、期间和之后从多个来源生成数据，描述了参与者如何经历最初的挑战，然后在课程结束时相互适应。该研究的结果表明，这种体验如何在文化上解放了学习者对其他性别的看法。特别是，研究结果表明，学习者逐渐形成了对另一性别社会地位的感性理解，课程中提供的机会促进了这种理解的形成。