Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wayne Martino
• Jürgen Budde
• Katharina Walgenbach
• Christine Thon

Titel

Teaching boys in neoliberal and post-feminist times: Feminization and the question of re-masculinization in the education system and policy field

Ist Teil von

• Männlichkeiten, 2014, p.29

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Verlag Barbara Budrich

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

UTB Scholars

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper I focus on teaching boys in response to postfeminist and neoliberal concerns about ‚failing boys‘ and celebratory discourses about ‚successful girls‘. What does it mean to teach boys in these times of insecurity, intensified backlash and panic about changing economic and social conditions? How do the gendered and embodied dimensions of teaching get constituted in response to concerns regarding data-driven claims about ‚failing boys‘ in the education system? In attempting to engage with these questions regarding the gendered dimensions and specifically calls for the re-masculinization of teaching and the curriculum, I draw attention to how educational panic