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Learning the Hard Way
2012
Overview
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
Rutgers University Press,Rutgers Univ. Press
Subject
/ Academic achievement -- United States -- Case studies
/ Blacks
/ Blacks -- Race identity -- United States -- Case studies
/ boys
/ class
/ Gender
/ girls
/ High school boys -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies
/ Identity
/ Men
/ Men -- United States -- Identity -- Case studies
/ Place
/ race
/ rural
/ Sex differences in education
/ Sex differences in education -- United States -- Case studies
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
/ U.S.A
/ urban
/ USA
ISBN
9780813553702, 0813553709, 0813553695, 9780813553696, 0813553687, 9780813553689
