Lost Boys
eBook - ePub

Lost Boys

How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lost Boys

How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men

About this book

Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational attainment and low aspiration as defining attributes of working-class boys in education. It has often characterised them as misogynistic, aggressive and unwilling to learn. But how true is this?

Combining research, real-life case studies and the author's experience of navigating school exclusion, this book provides clear recommendations for how to better support the health, wellbeing and vulnerabilities of working-class boys and men through both policy and practice.

Challenging us to reconsider ideas about the role of masculinity in the lives of working-class boys and men, the book asks what would change if, instead of focusing on perceived individual failures, we considered the troubled relationship between working-class boys and the social and educational systems in which they reside.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1 Introduction: Standing on the shoulders of giants
  7. 2 Masculinity and mental health: the big red button
  8. 3 Social mobility: navigating the aspiration trap
  9. 4 Societal change: boys, inequality and a ‘successful’ future
  10. 5 Working-class boys in London: the capital’s overlooked lads
  11. 6 Making the grades: teachers, schools and masculine expectations
  12. 7 Boys who care: masculinity, class and being a young carer
  13. 8 Being a Boy: learning from the real experts
  14. 9 Boys’ Impact: a roadmap to hope
  15. 10 Conclusion: The will to change
  16. Appendix: Taking Boys Seriously principles
  17. References
  18. Index