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Deficit Models, Masculinity and Boys' Achievement
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Quicke, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2019
Boys' underperformance relative to girls has been a major cause for concern in recent years. Some have seen the problem as linked to a dysfunctional anti-school masculine identity. The article explores this idea via a close reading of a popular text where the focus is on boys' behaviour and achievement in the context of a strategy for rethinking…
Descriptors: Males, Masculinity, Academic Achievement, Self Concept