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Aspiration Paradoxes: Working-Class Student Conceptions of Power in 'Engines of Social Mobility'
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Stahl, Garth – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
This paper examines the relationship between 'aspiration' and identity as rendered within discourses of power. Focusing on the deeply ingrained values of a group of 23 white working-class boys from South London (aged 14-16), the research critically considers the conception of power within a neoliberal era which produces both new subjectivities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aspiration, Working Class, Student Attitudes
Hip-Hop(e): The Cultural Practice and Critical Pedagogy of International Hip-Hop. Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society. Volume 56
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Porfilio, Brad J., Ed.; Viola, Michael J., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop. Contributors describe the social realities--globalization, migration, poverty, criminalization, and racism--youth are…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Cultural Activities
"Hustle & Flow": A Critical Student and Teacher-Generated Framework for Re-Authoring a Representation of Black Masculinity
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Staples, Jeanine M. – Educational Action Research, 2008
This article describes the formation and enactment of a student and teacher-generated framework for re-authoring a troubling representation of Black masculinity in a popular culture narrative. This data-driven framework highlights the ways students and teacher provided a means for literacies to serve students' desire to re-author images and words…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, After School Programs, Reflective Teaching, Masculinity
Masculinities and Violence: Interruption of Hegemonic Discourses in an English Classroom
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Hatchell, Helen – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
In this paper I explore ways in which adolescent male students perceive war and violence and related gender discourses. My research is situated in a Year 10 English classroom in a private boys' school in Perth, Australia. Interviews with students and their teacher provide opportunities to explore perceptions and ideas on issues relating to war and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Males, Masculinity
Notions of Sex, Sexuality and Relationships among Adolescent Boys in Rural Southeastern Nigeria
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Izugbara, C. Otutubikey – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2004
Although young people in Nigeria become sexually active at a very early age, little is known about how they view sex, sexuality, and relationships with the opposite sex. Yet knowledge of their notions and expectations regarding these issues has the potential to improve care and inform the development of sexuality education programmes. This paper…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Males, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning.
Kerr, Barbara A.; Cohn, Sanford J. – 2001
This book explores issues faced by gifted boys and men and the concerns of those around them. Section 1, "Giftedness and Masculinity," explores the relationship of special intellectual ability to the role of males in our society. The findings of a study on the male graduates of the accelerated learning class of 1969 are used as a cautionary tale.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Child Development, Child Rearing