“The hormones regulate all sorts of bodily functions for all ages of people, why would we blame hormones for the teenage daughter’s sudden?” (Walsh 2004,61)
Honestly, I did not have the opportunity to take biological classes systematically before. This article gave me a sense of the Hormones and its knowledge.
Will young boys that reach puberty earlier really affect their hormones development after they become adult? Does the puberty (earlier or later) influence people’s hormones testosterone for boys and estradiol for girls?
When is the earliest time to have gender identification? Does the puberty be a symbol of gender identification? How could young boys and girls know they are different from each other? Do they naturally know or unnaturally see the difference?
The hormones exist for all ages of people, why would the hormones that happen on adolescences are particular or seemed different from the adult? Why do people blame hormones for adolescences instead of the adult, is that because adults get used to having hormones and adolescences doesn’t?
As educators, I think teachers should give students a right sense and knowledge of hormones and guidance to help them understand the hormones and gender.
I think you are right about that we shouldn’t just blame the hormones to understand students’ behavior. However, I think that as future educators we should understand that this developmental processes affect each stage of growth from childhood to adolescence differently. Expectations of behavior change from different age ranges, even as adults too. However, before adulthood, students also go through these changes differently and understanding that context is important on how we evaluate an individual student and a classroom as a whole based on not only their stage of development, but also their socioeconomic cultural backgrounds, academics, family history, etc.