Boys and Their Schooling

This book re-evaluates the debate over why so many boys are failing at school, moving it from a focus on gender construction and the panic about achievement to the broader question of what it is to experience being schooled as a boy in the new liberal educational environment.

John Whelen is a tutor and research assistant in the faculty of education at Monash University, Australia.

Part 1: Boys in the Frame 1. Getting at Experience 2. The Schoolboy as Object of Study 3. Writing the Schoolboy 4. Observing Participation Part 2: That Unstable Construct 5. Monday Morning 6. George 7. Year 9 8. The Student Body 9. The Aspirational Self 10. Conclusion: Another New Beginning. Epilogue