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Breaking Through Barriers to Boys´ Achievement: Developing a Caring Masculinity
Gary Wilson
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Description for Breaking Through Barriers to Boys´ Achievement: Developing a Caring Masculinity
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, 50. BIC Classification: JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 295 x 212 x 11. Weight in Grams: 490.
Educators have for many years sought to understand why boys underperform in schools and what can be done about it. In Breaking through barriers to boys' achievement, Gary Wilson provides the full picture as to why boys of all ages underachieve and what can be done to start solving the problem. He presents the 28 barriers to boys' learning, including early language development, 'laddish' culture and lack of male role models. His emphasis is very much on turning out respectable young men who have a 'caring masculinity'. This revised and updated second edition includes new case studies, data ... Read more
Educators have for many years sought to understand why boys underperform in schools and what can be done about it. In Breaking through barriers to boys' achievement, Gary Wilson provides the full picture as to why boys of all ages underachieve and what can be done to start solving the problem. He presents the 28 barriers to boys' learning, including early language development, 'laddish' culture and lack of male role models. His emphasis is very much on turning out respectable young men who have a 'caring masculinity'. This revised and updated second edition includes new case studies, data ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408193549
SKU
V9781408193549
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99-50
About Gary Wilson
Gary Wilson is a freelance consultant and author, and chair of the National Education Breakthrough Programme on Raising Boys' Achievement in the UK. He wrote "Using the National Healthy School Standard to Raise Boys' Achievement" for the DFE and in 2003 was made the country's first LEA school improvement officer with specific responsibility for raising ... Read more
Reviews for Breaking Through Barriers to Boys´ Achievement: Developing a Caring Masculinity
Gary Wilson provides some challenging ideas about the way education is structured: food for thought and some recipes for action
Elaine Hall, www.teachingandexpertise.com, December 2007
Without doubt the seminal text on this subject
Phil Beadle, Guardian
Elaine Hall, www.teachingandexpertise.com, December 2007
Without doubt the seminal text on this subject
Phil Beadle, Guardian