Boys and Their Schooling

The Experience of Becoming Someone Else

John Whelen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-87917-0 (ISBN)

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This book 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.

This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school. It follows a group of thirteen to fifteen year olds over a period of more than two years, and seeks to understand why so many boys say they hate school yet enjoy being with one another in their daily confrontations with the formal school. The study acknowledges the ongoing significance of the "boys' debate" to policy-makers and the media, and therefore to teachers and parents, but moves it on from issues of 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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2011
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Education
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	710 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
ISBN-10	0-415-87917-5 / 0415879175
ISBN-13	978-0-415-87917-0 / 9780415879170
Zustand	Neuware