Failing Boys?

1st Edition
0335231500 · 9780335231508
Failing Boys? Issues in Gender and Achievement challenges the widespread perception that all boys are underachieving at school. It raises the more important and critical questions of which boys? At what stage of education? And according to what crite… Read More
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  • Part one: Boys' underachievement in context

  • Schoolboy frictions

  • feminism and failing boys
  • "A habit of healthy idleness"
  • boys' underachievement in historical perspective
  • Part two: Different constructions of the debate and its under-currents

  • Girls will be girls and boys will be first

  • 'Zero tolerance', gender performance and school failure
  • Breaking out of the binary trap
  • boys' underachievement, schooling and gender relations
  • Real boys don't work
  • masculinities, 'underachievement' and the harassment of sissies
  • Part three: Boys, which boys?

  • Loose canons

  • exploding the myth of the 'black macho' lad
  • Boys underachievement, special needs practices and equity
  • Curriculum, assessment and the debate

  • Language and gender

  • who, if anyone, is disadvantaged by what?
  • Gendered learning outside and inside school
  • influences on achievement
  • Index.