Boys and Their Schooling: The Experience of Becoming Someone Else

ISBN-13: 9780415879170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str.

John Whelen

Opis

This work re-evaluates the debate over why so many boys are failing at school, moving it from a focus on gender construction and the panic about achievement to the broader question of what it is to experience being schooled as a boy in the new liberal educational environment.

Spis treści

Part 1: Boys in the Frame  1. Getting at Experience  2. The Schoolboy as Object of Study  3. Writing the Schoolboy  4. Observing Participation  Part 2: That Unstable Construct  5. Monday Morning  6. George  7. Year 9  8. The Student Body  9. The Aspirational Self  10. Conclusion: Another New Beginning.  Epilogue

O autorze

John Whelen is a tutor and research assistant in the faculty of education at Monash University, Australia.