Learning the hard way : masculinity, place, and the gender gap in education / / Edward W. Morris

• Autore: Morris Edward W. <1973->
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.15/1
• Soggetto topico: Sex differences in education - United States; High school boys - United States - Social conditions; Men - United States - Identity; Black people - Race identity - United States; Academic achievement - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Respect and Respectability -- Chapter 3. The Hidden Injuries of Gender -- Chapter 4. Too Cool for School -- Chapter 5. Rednecks and Rutters -- Chapter 6. Clownin’ and Riffin’ -- Chapter 7 .“Girls Just Care about It More” -- Chapter 8. Friday Night Fights -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Appendix. Research Methods: Process and Representation -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a “boy crisis” in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. In Learning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools—one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African American. Crucial questions arose from his study of gender at these two schools. Why did boys tend to show less interest in and more defiance toward school? Why did girls significantly outperform boys at both schools? Why did people at the schools still describe boys as especially “smart”? Morris examines these questions and, in the process, illuminates connections of gender to race, class, and place. This book is not simply about the educational troubles of boys, but the troubled and complex experience of gender in school. It reveals how particular race, class, and geographical experiences shape masculinity and femininity in ways that affect academic performance. His findings add a new perspective to the “gender gap” in achievement.
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning the hard way
• ISBN: 1-283-52672-7; 9786613839176; 0-8135-5370-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826854103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II