Boys and their schooling
Subtitle: the experience of becoming someone else
By: by John Whelen
Series: Routledge research in education
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780415879170
Subjects: Boys; Education; Men; Education and state; Identity; Sex differences in education
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-273) and index.