Boys and schooling in the early years / Paul Connolly.
"Boys and Schooling in the Early Years represents the first major study of its kind to focus specifically on young boys and achievement. It makes a powerful argument for the need to begin tackling the problem of boy's lower educational performance in the early years." "This is es...
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London ; New York, NY :
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- "Boys' underachievement" : the evidence
- "Boys' underachievement" : the explanations
- Vygotsky, Bourdieu, and the social contexts of young children's development
- Worlds apart : introducing South Park and North Parade
- Home-school relations in South Park
- "Fish in water" : the schooling habitus of young middle class boys
- Home-school relations in North Parade
- "Fish out of water" : the schooling habitus of young working class boys
- Conclusions : working with young boys
- Pt. I. The rhetoric and the reality of 'boys' underachievement'
- 1. 'Boys' underachievement' : the evidence
- 2. 'Boys' underachievement' : the explanations
- Pt. II. Theorising boys and masculinities in the early years
- 3. Vygotsky, Bourdieu and the social contexts of young children's development
- Pt. III. Case studies of young boys and schooling
- 4. Worlds apart : introducing South Park and North Parade
- 5. Home-school relations in South Park
- 6. 'Fish in water' : the schooling habitus of young middle class boys
- 7. Home-school relations in North Parade
- 8. 'Fish out of water' : the schooling habitus of young working class boys
- Pt. IV. Implications for practice
- 9. Conclusions : working with young boys.