Lost Boys

How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men

Alex Blower (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2025
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7025-3 (ISBN)

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Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational attainment and low aspiration as defining attributes of working-class boys in education. It has often characterised them as misogynistic, aggressive and unwilling to learn. But how true is this?

Combining research, real-life case studies and the author’s experience of navigating school exclusion, this book provides clear recommendations for how to better support the health, wellbeing and vulnerabilities of working-class boys and men through both policy and practice.

Challenging us to reconsider ideas about the role of masculinity in the lives of working-class boys and men, the book asks what would change if, instead of focusing on perceived individual failures, we considered the troubled relationship between working-class boys and the social and educational systems in which they reside.

Alex Blower is Research Fellow at Arts University Bournemouth. Having faced challenges related to mental ill health and school exclusion as a young man, his motivation for writing this book is as personal as it is professional.

1. Introduction: Standing on the shoulders of giants

2. Masculinity and mental health: the big red button

3. Social mobility: navigating the aspiration trap

4. Societal change: boys, inequality and a ‘successful’ future

5. Working-class boys in London: the capital’s overlooked lads

6. Making the grades: teachers, schools and masculine expectations

7. Boys who care: masculinity, class and being a young carer

8. Being a Boy: learning from the real experts

9. Boys’ Impact: a roadmap to hope

10. Conclusion: The will to change

Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4473-7025-2 / 1447370252
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-7025-3 / 9781447370253
Zustand	Neuware