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Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education - Couverture souple

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Morris, Edward W.

 
9780813553696: Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0813553695 ISBN 13 : 9780813553696
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

EDWARD W. MORRIS is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky and the author of An Unexpected Minority: White Kids in an Urban School (Rutgers University Press).

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813553695
ISBN 13 
9780813553696
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Broché
Nombre de pages
224
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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