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Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education

2012 Edward W. Morris ;ISBN: 9780813553702 ;ISBN: 0813553709 ;ISBN: 0813553695 ;ISBN: 9780813553696 ;ISBN: 0813553687 ;ISBN: 9780813553689 ;EISBN: 9780813553702 ;EISBN: 0813553709 ;DOI: 10.36019/9780813553702 ;OCLC: 808730643 ;LCCallNum: LC212.92.M67 2012

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  • Title:
    Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education
  • Author: Morris, Edward W
  • Subjects: Academic achievement ; Black people ; Blacks ; Case studies ; Chancengleichheit ; Children's Studies ; Education ; Gender ; Gender differentiation ; Gender roles ; High School ; High school boys ; Identity ; Masculinity ; Men ; Place ; Race identity ; Schwarzer ; Sex differences in education ; Sex inequality ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social sciences ; Sociology ; U.S.A ; United States ; USA
  • Description: An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a "boy crisis" in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. InLearning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools-one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African American. Crucial questions arose from his study of gender at these two schools. Why did boys tend to show less interest in and more defiance toward school? Why did girls significantly outperform boys at both schools? Why did people at the schools still describe boys as especially "smart"? Morris examines these questions and, in the process, illuminates connections of gender to race, class, and place. This book is not simply about the educational troubles of boys, but the troubled and complex experience of gender in school. It reveals how particular race, class, and geographical experiences shape masculinity and femininity in ways that affect academic performance. His findings add a new perspective to the "gender gap" in achievement.
  • Publisher: United States: Rutgers University Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 224
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780813553702
    ISBN: 0813553709
    ISBN: 0813553695
    ISBN: 9780813553696
    ISBN: 0813553687
    ISBN: 9780813553689
    EISBN: 9780813553702
    EISBN: 0813553709
    DOI: 10.36019/9780813553702
    OCLC: 808730643
    LCCallNum: LC212.92.M67 2012
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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