Author: Wayne Martino
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335226353
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
“This book bears the hallmark of Open University Press texts. It is well laid out and nicely produced. It manages a good balance between textbook and cutting edge research… The book is impressive in its command of a wide range of writings on sexuality, gender, masculinity and schooling.” - Educational Review "Secondary school teachers, principals and school counsellors would be the primary audience for this book, although youth workers and other workers with adolescent males should also find the boys' perceptions of school and adolescent culture of great interest and considerable use." -Youth Studies Australia This book focuses on the impact and effects of masculinities on the lives of boys at school. Through interviews with boys from diverse backgrounds, the authors explore the various ways in which boys define and negotiate their masculinities at school. The following questions and issues are addressed: What does it mean to be a 'normal' boy and who decides this? How do issues of masculinity impact on boys from culturally diverse backgrounds, indigenous boys, those with disabilities and boys of diverse sexualities? What issues of power impact on these boys' lives and relationships at school? What effects do these issues have on boys' learning at school? Through problematizing and interrogating the question of what makes a boy a boy, this fascinating title offers recommendations and indicates future directions for working with boys in school.
EBOOK: So What's A Boy?
So What'S A Boy?
Author: Martino, Wayne
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335203817
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Annotation Đ“This book bears the hallmark of Open University Press texts. It is well laid out and nicely produced. It manages a good balance between textbook and cutting edge researchĐ… The book is impressive in its command of a wide range of writings on sexuality, gender, masculinity and schooling.Đ” - Educational ReviewThis book focuses on the impact and effects of masculinities on the lives of boys at school. Through interviews with boys from diverse backgrounds, the authors explore the various ways in which boys define and negotiate their masculinities at school. The following questions and issues are addressed: * What does it mean to be a 'normal' boy and who decides this? * How do issues of masculinity impact on boys from culturally diverse backgrounds, indigenous boys, those with disabilities and boys of diverse sexualities? * What issues of power impact on these boys' lives and relationships at school? What effects do these issues have on boys' learning at school? Through problematizing and interrogating the question of what makes a boy a boy, this fascinating title offers recommendations and indicates future directions for working with boys in school.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335203817
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Annotation Đ“This book bears the hallmark of Open University Press texts. It is well laid out and nicely produced. It manages a good balance between textbook and cutting edge researchĐ… The book is impressive in its command of a wide range of writings on sexuality, gender, masculinity and schooling.Đ” - Educational ReviewThis book focuses on the impact and effects of masculinities on the lives of boys at school. Through interviews with boys from diverse backgrounds, the authors explore the various ways in which boys define and negotiate their masculinities at school. The following questions and issues are addressed: * What does it mean to be a 'normal' boy and who decides this? * How do issues of masculinity impact on boys from culturally diverse backgrounds, indigenous boys, those with disabilities and boys of diverse sexualities? * What issues of power impact on these boys' lives and relationships at school? What effects do these issues have on boys' learning at school? Through problematizing and interrogating the question of what makes a boy a boy, this fascinating title offers recommendations and indicates future directions for working with boys in school.
What's to Become of the Boy?
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A vivid account of growing up poor, rebellious, and anti-Fascist in Nazi Germany What’s to Become of the Boy? is a spirited, insightful, and wonderfully sympathetic memoir about life during wartime written with the characteristic brilliance by one of the 20th-century’s most celebrated authors. It is both an essential autobiography of the Nobel Prizewinning author and a compelling memoir of being young and idealistic during an age of hardship and war.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A vivid account of growing up poor, rebellious, and anti-Fascist in Nazi Germany What’s to Become of the Boy? is a spirited, insightful, and wonderfully sympathetic memoir about life during wartime written with the characteristic brilliance by one of the 20th-century’s most celebrated authors. It is both an essential autobiography of the Nobel Prizewinning author and a compelling memoir of being young and idealistic during an age of hardship and war.
Familiar Talks on that Boy and Girl of Yours
Author: Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Publisher:
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Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Tad, the Story of a Boy who Had No Chance
Author: William Cyrus Sprague
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A bad boy's diary. [Another] unabridged ed
Author: Metta Victoria Victor
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Boy Toy
Author: Barry Lyga
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547076347
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
In his follow-up to "The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl," Lyga delivers a disturbing, ripped-from-the-headlines novel about a seventh-grade boy who has a very adult relationship with his female teacher.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547076347
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
In his follow-up to "The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl," Lyga delivers a disturbing, ripped-from-the-headlines novel about a seventh-grade boy who has a very adult relationship with his female teacher.