A boy behaving badly: investigating teachers' assumptions about gender, behaviour, mobility and literacy learning
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Article Title | A boy behaving badly: investigating teachers' assumptions about gender, behaviour, mobility and literacy learning |
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ERA Journal ID | 20438 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Henderson, Robyn |
Journal Title | Australian Journal of Language and Literacy |
Journal Citation | 31 (1), pp. 74-87 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2008 |
Publisher | Springer |
Place of Publication | Adelaide, Australia |
ISSN | 1038-1562 |
1839-4728 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://alea.edu.au/html/publications/120/ajll-feb-2008 |
Abstract | This paper explores the complex behavioural and academic issues that surfaced in an Australian primary school following the enrolment of a student whose parents were itinerant farm workers. The student did not merge easily into the school population as most of the other itinerant farm workers' children seemed to do. Instead, he stood out because of the challenges he posed for school personnel and school processes. This single case study examines teachers' social and discursive constructions of a boy who behaved badly; teachers' growing recognition that he was a student who achieved well on some literacy tests, and the challenges of reconciling understandings and assumptions about gender, school behaviour, mobility and literacy learning. |
Keywords | literacy; literacy learning; mobility; itinerant; gender; boys; school behaviour |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390203. Sociology of education |
390104. English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) | |
440599. Gender studies not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Copyright 2008 Australian Literacy Educators' Association. Permanent restricted access to published version due to publisher copyright policy. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y4q1/a-boy-behaving-badly-investigating-teachers-assumptions-about-gender-behaviour-mobility-and-literacy-learning
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