Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men - Couverture souple

Blower, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447370252 ISBN 13 : 9781447370253

Editeur : Policy Press, 2025

Synopsis

Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational attainment and low aspiration as defining attributes of working-class boys in education. It has often characterised them as misogynistic, aggressive and unwilling to learn. But how true is this?

Combining research, real-life case studies and the author’s experience of navigating school exclusion, this book provides clear recommendations for how to better support the health, wellbeing and vulnerabilities of working-class boys and men through both policy and practice.

Challenging us to reconsider ideas about the role of masculinity in the lives of working-class boys and men, the book asks what would change if, instead of focusing on perceived individual failures, we considered the troubled relationship between working-class boys and the social and educational systems in which they reside.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alex Blower is Research Fellow at Arts University Bournemouth. Having faced challenges related to mental ill health and school exclusion as a young man, his motivation for writing this book is as personal as it is professional.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Policy Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447370252
• ISBN 13: 9781447370253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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