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adolescent identity formation
Australian boys schooling experience
Author_John Whelen
Body Reflexive Practices
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Contemporary Society
Continuous Personal Identity
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Disaffected Boys
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educational ethnography
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Form Assembly
Form Captain
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Gender Equity Policies
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Hillside High School
House Captain
Independent Life Long Learning
masculinity in schools
Midyear Exams
Modern Languages
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Profeminist Writers
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secondary education research
Social Reproduction
Speech Night
Student Diary
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Work Habits
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415879170
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school. It follows a group of thirteen to fifteen year olds over a period of more than two years, and seeks to understand why so many boys say they hate school yet enjoy being with one another in their daily confrontations with the formal school. The study acknowledges the ongoing significance of the "boys' debate" to policy-makers and the media, and therefore to teachers and parents, but moves it on from issues of gender construction and the panic about achievement to the broader question of what it is to experience being schooled as a boy in the new liberal educational environment.
John Whelen is a tutor and research assistant in the faculty of education at Monash University, Australia.
