Failing boys? : issues in gender and achievement /
Failing boys? : issues in gender and achievement /
edited by Debbie Epstein [and others] on behalf of the Centre for Research and Education on Gender, University of London, Institute of Education.
- ix, 192 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schoolboy frictions : feminism and "failing boys" / "Habit of healthy idleness" : boys' underachievement in historical perspective / 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 : "underachievement," masculinity, and the harassment of "sissies" / Loose canons : exploding the myth of the "black macho" lad / Boys' underachievement, special needs practices and questions of equity / Language and gender : who, if anyone, is disadvantaged by what? / Gendered learning outside and inside school : influences on achievement / Debbie Epstein ... [et al.] -- Michèle Cohen -- Pat Mahony -- Lynn Raphael Reed -- David Jackson -- Debbie Epstein -- Tony Sewell -- Valerie Hey ... [et al.] -- Joan Swann -- Patricia Murphy and Jannette Elwood.
0335202381 9780335202386
98018351
Boys--Education--Great Britain
Underachievers--Great Britain
School failure--Great Britain
Academic achievement--Great Britain
Sex differences in education--Great Britain
LC1390. / F35 1998
371.82110941
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schoolboy frictions : feminism and "failing boys" / "Habit of healthy idleness" : boys' underachievement in historical perspective / 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 : "underachievement," masculinity, and the harassment of "sissies" / Loose canons : exploding the myth of the "black macho" lad / Boys' underachievement, special needs practices and questions of equity / Language and gender : who, if anyone, is disadvantaged by what? / Gendered learning outside and inside school : influences on achievement / Debbie Epstein ... [et al.] -- Michèle Cohen -- Pat Mahony -- Lynn Raphael Reed -- David Jackson -- Debbie Epstein -- Tony Sewell -- Valerie Hey ... [et al.] -- Joan Swann -- Patricia Murphy and Jannette Elwood.
0335202381 9780335202386
98018351
Boys--Education--Great Britain
Underachievers--Great Britain
School failure--Great Britain
Academic achievement--Great Britain
Sex differences in education--Great Britain
LC1390. / F35 1998
371.82110941