Learning the hard way [electronic resource] : masculinity, place, and the gender gap in education / Edward W. Morris.
Morris, Edward W., 1973-
2012
LC212.92 .M67 2012eb
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Title Learning the hard way [electronic resource] : masculinity, place, and the gender gap in education / Edward W. Morris.
Author Morris, Edward W., 1973-
ISBN 9780813553702 (electronic book)
9780813553689
9780813553696
Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 212 p.)
Call Number LC212.92 .M67 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 370.15/1
Summary An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly news magazines, 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 this book the author 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"? The author 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Introduction
Respect and respectability
The hidden injuries of gender
Too cool for school: masculinity and the contradictions of achievement
Rednecks and rutters: rural masculinity and class anxiety
Clownin' and riffin' : urban masculinity and the complexity of race
"Girls just care about it more" : femininity and achievement as resistance
Friday night fights
Conclusion
Appendix : Research methods: process and representation.

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