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Keddie, Amanda; Mills, Carmen; Mills, Martin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2008
This article explores the complex struggles associated with intersections of class, rurality and masculinity, and the ways in which such intersections work to preserve a gendered status quo within and beyond school communities in Australia. Drawing on the stories of Monica and Phoebe, two teachers who understand schooling as a site of…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Social Class, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries
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Johannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir; Lingard, Bob; Mills, Martin – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
Recognising that there is now a globalised educational discourse about "failing boys" circulating in the privileged nations of the global north, this article provides a comparative perspective on educational policy responses to the "boy turn" in Australia and Iceland. Specificities of the responses to the boy turn in the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Government, Educational Policy, Males