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Book Review: Boys and Their Schooling

Gender equity efforts in school tend to focus on reversing or mitigating past injury resulting from unfair or harmful practices. Much of the popular discussion about gender practices and policies in education posits that boys have suffered from the overcompensation of attention on girls' achievement and well-being in the last couple of decades . In more nuanced debates, the tensions tend to be about which groups of girls and boys are most in crisis and in need of saving. For example, a recent AAUW report contends that

Boys, literacy and schooling: Expanding the repertoires of practice

2002

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Reproduction, Resistance and Hope: The Promise of Schooling for Boys

Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2012

Extended editorial introduction to a double special issue on boys and schooling. Adopting a developmental perspective on boyhood, the editors frame these special issues on boys' education by reviewing research on their experience of schooling. In particular, they endeavor to illuminate boys' agency and opportunities they can find in schools for resistance to restrictive masculine regimes.