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Kokko, Sirpa – Gender and Education, 2012
Craft education in Finland has long gendered traditions that effect the present situation. The aim of this paper is to analyse the processes of learning the interlinking of crafts and gender. The analysis concentrates on male trainee teachers' experiences of craft education in comprehensive schools in Finland. Data were collected through memory…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Preservice Teacher Education
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Brockenbrough, Ed – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2012
Recent scholarship on male teachers across several national contexts has investigated the dilemmas of hegemonic masculinity for male educators while only recently beginning to examine race as a mediator of masculinity politics in teaching. Conversely, an emergent body of work on Black male teachers has centred analyses of race and culture, but has…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teaching (Occupation), Males, Masculinity
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Godinho, Sally; Garas, Dimitri – Gender and Education, 2012
This article draws on a case study of 15 boys aged between 13 and 14 years who attend an urban ethno-centric community school located in Melbourne, Australia. The study investigated how the boys' constructions of masculinity were mediated by a strong connectedness to their Greek cultural traditions and ideals. Data generated from focus group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Schools, Focus Groups, Males
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Ricciardelli, Rosemary; White, Philip – Qualitative Report, 2011
In postmodern scholarship there has been a temporal shift to thinking of the body as malleable rather than fixed, which has opened space for the remaking of the self via the remaking of the body (Featherstone, 1991; Giddens, 1991). Among men, this process is thought to interact with shifting understandings of masculinity. In this study, 14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Self Concept, Human Body
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Brown, Keffrelyn D.; Kraehe, Amelia – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2011
In this article we consider the implications of using popular visual media as a pedagogic tool for helping teachers acquire critical sociocultural knowledge to work more effectively with students of color, particularly Black males. Drawing from a textual analysis (McKee 2001, 2003; Rose 2001) conducted in the critical visual studies tradition…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Teacher Education, Masculinity, Males
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Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin; Haywood, Chris – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
The retreat from social class within the sociology of education has been accompanied by the intensification of socio-economic and cultural inequalities. This paper seeks to draw upon cultural analyses of social class by addressing a classificatory shift of white English working-class males, who have moved from an ascribed primary "socio-economic"…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, State Schools, Social Class, Educational Sociology
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Harris, Frank, III; Palmer, Robert T.; Struve, Laura E. – Journal of Negro Education, 2011
Using theories and concepts relating to the social construction of Black masculinity and male gender role conflict the authors explored contextualized meanings of masculinities and corresponding behavioral expressions among 22 Black men enrolled at a private research university. The concepts of toughness, aggressiveness, material wealth.…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Males, Masculinity, African American Students
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Hayes, Cleveland; Montes, Adonay; Schroeder, Laurie – Gender and Education, 2013
In this study, the pedagogies of the home used by Latinos as they attend schools in the USA are highlighted. We hope to use the stories of Arturo and Ruben, successful Latinos, as a means to show that Latinos are developing strategies that can be shared through the telling of their stories and to claim the value of voicing the difficult realities…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Hispanic Americans, Social Attitudes, Critical Theory
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Chard, Rachel – Management in Education, 2013
In educational leadership there appears to be a disproportionately low number of female head teachers in comparison to the number in teaching. This article explores whether embedded links between leadership and masculinity still exist, and reports on the reasons given by a sample of three male leaders as to why they pursued careers in educational…
Descriptors: Males, Educational Administration, Masculinity, Leadership
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Silva, Paula; Botelho-Gomes, Paula; Goellner, Silvana Vilodre – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
The purpose of this study was to analyse representations of hegemonic masculinity in physical education (PE) mixed classes, the only curricular discipline having sport as its contents in the Portuguese educational system. The analysed data come from semi-structured interviews with Portuguese secondary school teachers and students and from class…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Semi Structured Interviews, Structured Interviews, Masculinity
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Schwartz, Jonathan Peter; Kelley, Frances A.; Kohli, Nidhi – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The development and initial psychometric investigation of the Dating Attitudes Inventory (DAI) is reported. The DAI was created, to fill a gap in the literature and to measure specific masculine ideology and traditional gender attitudes that rationalize the abuse of women. Using a sample (n = 164) of male college students, a 20-item measure was…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Psychometrics, College Students, Dating (Social)
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Woodhams, Jessica; Cooke, Claire; Harkins, Leigh; da Silva, Teresa – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Sexual offences by multiple perpetrators are more violent and involve more severe forms of sexual violation than those perpetrated by a lone offender. Often a clear leader exists within these groups. Questions have been raised as to the relative risk of reoffending and the potentially differing criminogenic needs of leaders and followers. However,…
Descriptors: Rape, Predictor Variables, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Frye, Victoria; Bonner, Sebastian; Williams, Kim; Henny, Kirk; Bond, Keosha; Lucy, Debbie; Cupid, Malik; Smith, Stephen; Koblin, Beryl A. – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2012
In the United States, racial disparities in HIV/AIDS are stark. Although African Americans comprise an estimated 14% of the U.S. population, they made up 52% of new HIV cases among adults and adolescents diagnosed in 2009. Heterosexual transmission is now the second leading cause of HIV in the United States. African Americans made up a full…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, African Americans, Males
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Stahl, Garth; Dale, Pete – Educational Forum, 2012
The disengagement of working-class boys from education continues to be a major issue in the United Kingdom; however, there has been little educational research in working-class boys' identity work surrounding learning practices where boys actively engage. This article attempts to address how identities are influenced by new literacies,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Informal Education, Working Class
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Hammer, Joseph H.; Vogel, David L. – Counseling Psychologist, 2010
Although depression among men is becoming better understood, men still underuse counseling services. Hence, there is an important need for improved ways to reach out to depressed men. This study examined the efficacy of a male-sensitive brochure aimed toward improving attitudes about seeking counseling and reducing the self-stigma of seeking…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Help Seeking, Mental Health, Marketing
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