Boys and their schooling : the experience of becoming someone else / / John Whelen
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| Autore: |
Whelen John
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| Titolo: |
Boys and their schooling : the experience of becoming someone else / / John Whelen
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 371.823/41 |
| Soggetto topico: | Boys - Education |
| Sex differences in education - United States | |
| Men - Identity | |
| Education and state - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Boys in the frame -- pt. 2. That unstable construct. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school. It follows a group of thirteen to fifteen year olds over a period of more than two years, and seeks to understand why so many boys say they hate school yet enjoy being with one another in their daily confrontations with the formal school. The study acknowledges the ongoing significance of the ""boys' debate"" to policy-makers and the media, and therefore to teachers and parents, but moves it on from issues of gender construction and the panic about achievement to the broader question of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Boys and their schooling |
| ISBN: | 1-136-80395-5 |
| 1-283-10359-1 | |
| 9786613103598 | |
| 1-136-80396-3 | |
| 0-203-82780-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790096403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge research in education ; ; 54.