Schooling the public on boys: the ongoing salience in media representations of the 'crisis' in boys’ education

Autor: Pam Papadelos, Martha Augoustinos, Penelope Eate, Mandy Treagus, Chris Beasley
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Feminist Media Studies. 17:248-263
ISSN: 1471-5902
1468-0777
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2016.1187640
Popis: This paper explores the salience of the “crisis” in boys’ education as it is articulated in Australian print media. We will consider the ways in which this crisis is expressed through a gendered language which simultaneously represents boys as “forgotten” by teaching practices thought to be prioritising girls’ learning, and as an equity (disadvantaged) grouping who require specialised teaching methods different from those currently offered within the Australian school system. Further, we will examine the extent to which feminist-inspired reforms in education are either implicitly or explicitly referenced as an explanation for boys’ apparently poor education attainment, and relatedly consider the work of “experts” supporting claims of a pro-feminine bias that adversely affects boys’ learning outcomes, particularly those experts offering neurological or psychological/cognitive findings which assert a biological basis for gender difference. In this context, we argue that rather than advancing gender ...
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