Masculinity and Education

Amanda Coffey, David James

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780415706896
• eBook ISBN: 9781134909810
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The uncertain, complex and problematic relationships between masculinity and education have come to occupy a prominent position within the sociology of education in recent years. This collection of articles brings together a range of different perspectives, offering both empirical and theoretical contributions to our understanding of this subject.

The articles seek to broaden our sociological understanding by considering masculinities in relation to a variety of educational setting and contexts. These include the role of football in the playground of a junior school, the question of why more boys study AS-level mathematics in England, the changing rhetoric of education ministers, and attempts to increase the number of male primary school teachers in Australia. The collection also engages with the broader context of gender politics and educational theory and the volume concludes with a study of the move away from class analysis within educational theories in recent decades, taking English white working class masculinity as its main focus.

The collection offers a perceptive insight into a crucial and current area within the sociology of education.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Introduction
• 1. ‘The Money’s Good, The Fame’s Good, The Girls are Good’: the role of playground football in the construction of young boys’ masculinity in a junior school
• 2. Learning the ‘Hard’ Way: boys, hegemonic masculinity and the negotiation of learner identities in the primary school
• 3. Welcome to the New Ambivalence: reflections on the historical and current cultural antagonism between the working class male and higher education
• 4. Muscularity, the Habitus and the Social Construction of Gender: towards a gender-relevant physical education
• 5. Attracting, recruiting and retaining male teachers: policy issues in the male teacher debate
• 6. Mathematical stories: why do more boys than girls choose to study mathematics at AS-level in England?
• 7. New Labour, new leaders? Gendering transformational leadership
• 8. ‘I don’t do the mothering role that lots of female teachers do’: male teachers, gender, power and social organisation
• 9. ‘Walking yourself around as a teacher’: gender and embodiment in student teachers’ working lives
• 10. Schooling, masculinity and class analysis: towards an aesthetic of subjectivities
• Index