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Direct linkSwain, Jon – Sport, Education and Society, 2006
This article concerns the central role of organised sport in the construction of masculinity amongst Year 6 boys (10 to 11-year-olds) at an English independent (fee-paying) junior school. The data come from an ethnographic study of one year's duration that investigated constructions of masculinity among two classes. The formal school culture…
Descriptors: Athletics, Males, Masculinity, Elementary School Students
Swain, Jon – British Educational Research Journal, 2004
The data in this article come from an ethnographic exploration into the construction of masculinities in three junior schools in the UK between 1998 and 1999. The author argues that the construction and performance of masculinity is inextricably linked to the acquisition of status within the school peer group, and he delineates the specific series…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Masculinity, Males, Educational Environment
