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

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

Morris, Edward W.

Hardcover

Series: Rutgers Childhood Studies

Medical ReferenceGeneral EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0813553687
ISBN13: 9780813553689
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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. In Learning 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?

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