Masculinity and Aspiration in an Era of Neoliberal Education: International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367194284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Garth Stahl; Joseph Nelson; Derron Wallace

Opis

Addressing boys’ schooling experiences and subjectivities from a neoliberal perspective, this collection investigates the ways in which boys negotiate neoliberal rhetoric surrounding aspiration and how neoliberalism shapes boys’ identities.

Spis treści

Introduction Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson, Derron O. Wallace Part I 1. Policy Logics, Counter-Narratives, and New Directions: Boys and Schooling in a Neoliberal Age Konstanze Spohrer and Garth Stahl Part II 2. Aspiration Anxieties: Developing Middle-Class Manhood among Black African Boys in London Derron O. Wallace 3. White Working-Class Boys in the Neoliberal Meritocracy: The Pitfalls of the "Aspiration-Raising" Agenda Sam Baars 4. "I’m Not Just One Type of Person": Aspirational Working-Class Belfast Boys and Complex Embodied Performances of Educationally Successful Masculinities Nicola Ingram 5. Coming of Age through the Recession: High School Imaginings of Post-Recession Futures in New York City Patrick Alexander 6. "I want to be a soccer player or a mathematician:" Fifth-grade Black boys' aspirations at a "neoliberal" single-sex school Joseph Derrick Nelson 7. ‘Without my education I can’t be somebody’: Latino Masculinity, School Contexts and Aspiration Mellie Torres 8. (Re)masculinizing "Suzhi Jiaoyu" (Education for Quality): Aspirational Values of Modernity in Neoliberal China Xiaodong Lin and Máirtín Mac an Ghaill 9. ‘Gotta get that laziness out of me’: Negotiating Masculine Aspirational Subjectivities in the Transition from School to University in Australia Sue Nichols and Garth Stahl Part III 10. The Neoliberal Masculine Logic: Skilled Migration, International Students, and the Indian "Other" in Australia Michiel Baas Conclusion: Masculinity and Aspiration in the Era of Neoliberal Education: International Perspectives Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson, and Derron Wallace