The First Day of Boys' School (original) (raw)

2021, "Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies", Boyhood Studies

Boyhood Studies, 2021

This critical commentary considers the significance of Connell's The Men and the Boys in the development of an affirmative feminist boys studies. In particular, the article asks: How can research on boys contribute to feminist research on childhood and youth, without either establishing a false equivalency with girls studies, or overstating the singularity of "the boy" across diverse cultural and historical contexts? Connell's four-tiered account of social relations-political, economic, emotional, and symbolic-provides an important corrective to reductionist approaches to both feminism and boyhood, and this article draws on The Men and the Boys to think through contrasting sites of identity formation around boys: online cultures of "incels" (involuntary celibates); transmasculinities and the biological diversity of the category "man"; and the social power excercised within an elite Australian boys school. The article concludes by identifying contemporary challenges emerging from the heuristic model offered in The Men and the Boys.

A Comfortable Start for Everyone: The First Week of School in Three Multi-Age (K-2) Classrooms

Day Care & Early Education, 1999

This article describes the start of the school year in three multi-age classrooms where 8 new kindergarten children join 16 returning first and second graders. The authors (professor/observers and teachers) describe what happens during the first week of school in this setting where the students remain with their teachers for 3 years. They explain what the start of the year