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Yuan, Ting; Grant, Rachel – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
Disparities in school discipline data indicate that children of color, particularly boys, receive more frequent and harsher disciplinary actions than their white peers, and this begins in early schooling. Within today's print-centered, bodily restricted school curricula, literacy instruction is often reduced to highly controlled, leveled readers…
Descriptors: Males, Behavior Problems, Minority Group Students, Grade 1
Hobday-Kusch, Jody; McVittie, Janet – Canadian Journal of Education, 2002
Using a post-structural, interpretive perspective, we studied children's humour in a grade-1 and -2 classroom. In this article, we report our observations of two boys who took on the role of "class clown." The boys used humour to negotiate power, which we defined as participation in discourse, taking on the role of class clowns and…
Descriptors: Males, Grade 1, Grade 2, Humor