Working with boys’ peer cultures: productive pedagogies... productive boys

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Keddie, Amanda. 2004. "Working with boys’ peer cultures: productive pedagogies... productive boys." Curriculum Perspectives. 24 (1), pp. 20-29.
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Working with boys’ peer cultures: productive pedagogies... productive boys

ERA Journal ID20579
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AuthorKeddie, Amanda
Journal TitleCurriculum Perspectives
Journal Citation24 (1), pp. 20-29
Number of Pages10
Year2004
PublisherSpringer
Place of PublicationCanberra, Australia
ISSN0159-7868
Web Address (URL)http://www.acsa.edu.au/pages/page100.asp
Abstract

Peer culture is particularly powerful in shaping boys' anti-school attitudes and behaviours, in causing disruption, harassment, hostility and aggression. Peer networks are said to comprise a means through which boys can explore, negotiate and practice a range of social and sexual identities. There is little agreement on how best to address issues of gender, in particular masculinity, within the school environment. Through examining some of the key issues in this area, this paper identifies how specific interventions and recommendations within the sphere of boys' education might either enable or constrain the improvement of academic and social outcomes. Following a discussion on interventions for working with boys which might be seen as limited, this paper draws on the integrative social justice focus of Productive Pedagogies, to explore particular strategies for working with boys' peer cultures to facilitate boys' disruption and reworking of essentialist understandings of masculinities.

Keywordsbehaviour problems; classroom environment; gender issues; males; masculinity; peer influence; peer relationship; sex differences; teaching process
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020390199. Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified
520502. Gender psychology
390406. Gender, sexuality and education
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