Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools

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Boys Don’t Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools is available via https://www.routledge.com/9780815350255. Do you have an idea for a story?

A gender gap in educational attainment means boys get lower exam results than girls, are more likely to drop out, and are less likely to go to university than their female counterparts. But which boys are affected? It’s really the working-class boys who experience the most difficulties. Working-class boys are more likely to get caught up in a negative dynamic of acting out and being reprimanded and then becoming disengaged.” We’ve seen a shift in the gender gap over the last few decades from where it was the male students who went to university, to the females more likely to do so. That gap is now in favour of girls, in a number of domains. It’s not huge,” she says.As Roberts and Pinkett make clear throughout Boys Don’t Try, high expectations are far more useful to build student self-esteem. Similar classes I’ve taught more recently have completed the same tasks as top sets, with often just as good results. Again supporting Roberts’ assertion that setting is rarely just about ability. Schools are not the only drivers with regards to societal norms around gender but they certainly have the opportunity to dispel archaic workplace gender stereotypes.” As a reader, it’s a scary moment when it dawns that these strategies were doing more harm than good. The World Cup of Writing created more losers than winners. The sports text reinforced stereotypes of masculinity and prevented students from building cultural capital. In one colleague’s maths lesson, the boys remembered far more about pizza toppings than the formula for calculating the area of a circle. The Teaching Delusion: Why teaching in our schools isn’t good enough (and how we can make it better) by Bruce Robertson

Positive climate: Try a variety of teaching methods with active involvement from students and move away from punitive discipline into a more positive school climate. Refusing to produce what you deem to be an adequate amount of work in a given time frame is an act of defiance and should be treated as such.

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Be sure also to give boys a taste of success. Contrary to popular belief, it is success that begets motivation, rather than the other way round. So is there really a crisis? Or some kind of moral panic? Why are boys falling behind? And what can we do to help them achieve more? Crisis This book is easy to read, but hard to listen to. I’m reassured by the solutions, but frustrated by all the mistakes we’ve been making for so long. Exploring gender differences in education forms akey part of the specification Iteach in ALevel Sociology, in particular looking at explanations for gender differences in attainment. It is well documented that boys underperform at all stages of primary and secondary education in comparison to girls, and in Sociology we explore possible sociological explanations for these differences. It is an area of Sociology that Iam particularly passionate about and the insights that students provide when we discuss this topic are endlessly fascinating! What about the boys?’ is a common refrain in education circles when discussing academic achievement, particularly in English.