Failing Boys? Issues in Gender and Achievement challenges the widespread perception that all boys are underachieving at school. It raises the more important and critical questions of which boys? At what stage of education? And according to what criteria? The issues surrounding boys' 'underachievement' have been at the centre of public debate about education and the raising of standards in recent years. Media and political responses to the 'problem of boys' have tended to be simplistic, partial, and owe more to 'quick fixes' than investigation and research. Failing Boys? provides a detailed and nuanced 'case study' of the issues in the UK, which will be of international relevance as the moral panic is a globalised one, taking place in diverse countries. The contributors to this book take seriously the issues of boys' 'underachievement' inside and outside school from a critical perspective which draws on the insights of previous feminist studies of education to illuminate the problems associated with the education of boys. This will be a key text for educators, policy makers, students and teachers of education, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies and others interested in gender and achievement.
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Debbie Epstein, Jannette Elwood, Valerie Hey and Janet Maw are all associates of the Centre for Research and Education on Gender at the Institute of Education, University of London. All have published widely on different aspects of education and gender and they organized the seminar series, Gender and Education: Are Boys Now Underachieving which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council during 1995-1997.
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gender absolutism, underachieving boy, macho lads, male disadvantage, effortless achievement, heterosexual boys, school effectiveness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Open University Press, United Kingdom, University of London Institute of Education, Raphael Reed, International Journal of Inclusive Education, New York, Falmer Press, Hackney Downs, New Zealand, Times Educational Supplement, Equal Opportunities Commission, United States, Board of Education, Trentham Books, Debbie Epstein, Pat Mahony, Teacher Training Agency, Jannette Elwood, Labour Party, Milton Keynes, The Making of Men, Clarendon Commission, Code of Practice, Michèle Cohen, Oxford University Press New!
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During the academic years 1995-6 and 1996-7 we were responsible for organizing a series of seminars held by the Centre for Research and Education on Gender at the University of London Institute of Education, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gender absolutism, underachieving boy, macho lads, male disadvantage, effortless achievement, heterosexual boys, school effectiveness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Open University Press, United Kingdom, University of London Institute of Education, Raphael Reed, International Journal of Inclusive Education, New York, Falmer Press, Hackney Downs, New Zealand, Times Educational Supplement, Equal Opportunities Commission, United States, Board of Education, Trentham Books, Debbie Epstein, Pat Mahony, Teacher Training Agency, Jannette Elwood, Labour Party, Milton Keynes, The Making of Men, Clarendon Commission, Code of Practice, Michèle Cohen, Oxford University Press New!
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- Why Feminism? by Lynne Segal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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