Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools

Boys are struggling in schools due to traditional ideas about masculinity, academic results, lack of interest, exclusion rates, mental health issues, sexist attitudes, and inability to express emotions. Matt Pinkett and Mark Roberts argue that schools must rethink their efforts to get boys back on track. Boys Don't Try? examines the research around key topics and offers practical quick wins and long-term strategies to help boys become happier and achieve greater academic success. It also highlights key areas of pastoral care and exposes how popular approaches to engaging boys are misguided and damaging.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 204 pages
\n Publication date: 18 April 2019
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
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The issue of boys struggling in schools is a significant concern that requires the attention of teachers. There are numerous factors contributing to this problem, including disappointing academic results, a lack of interest in studying, higher exclusion rates, increasing mental health issues, sexist attitudes, and an inability to express emotions. Traditional ideas about masculinity are also having a negative impact on both males and females.

In their groundbreaking book, "Boys Don't Try?" Matt Pinkett and Mark Roberts argue that schools must rethink their efforts to get boys back on track. The book examines the research around key topics such as anxiety and achievement, behavior and bullying, schoolwork and self-esteem. It encourages the reader to reflect on how they define masculinity and consider what we want for boys in our schools.

Offering practical quick wins and long-term strategies to help boys become happier and achieve greater academic success, the book provides ways to avoid problematic behavior by boys and tips to help teachers address poor behavior when it happens. It also highlights key areas of pastoral care that need to be recognized by schools and exposes how popular approaches to engaging boys are actually misguided and damaging.

The book details how issues like disadvantage, relationships, violence, peer pressure, and pornography affect boys' perceptions of masculinity and how teachers can challenge these. With an easy-to-navigate three-part structure for each chapter, setting out the stories, key research, and practical solutions, this is essential reading for all classroom teachers and school leaders who are keen to ensure male students enjoy the same success as girls.

\n Weight: 410g\n
Dimension: 248 x 182 x 13 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780815350255\n \n