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Serriere, Stephanie Cayot – Democracy & Education, 2008
This article examines the relationship between dominant masculinities and school safety. The author shows how the social construction of masculinity impacts the safety of boys and girls in school--socially, emotionally, and physically. Drawing from research on early masculinities, incidences of bullying, hate crimes, and school shootings, the…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, School Safety, Masculinity
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Jeffrey, Craig; Jeffery, Roger; Jeffery, Patricia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
This paper explores the cultural and economic strategies of educated but un/under-employed young Muslim men aged between 20 and 34 in a village in western Uttar Pradesh, north India. Drawing on Connell's gender theory, the paper demonstrates how economic and political forces shape Muslim young men's strategies. The paper distinguishes between…
Descriptors: Muslims, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Males
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Martino, Wayne John – Curriculum Inquiry, 2008
This article focuses on the call for more male teachers as role models in elementary schools and treats it as a manifestation of "recuperative masculinity politics" ( Lingard & Douglas, 1999). Attention is drawn to the problematic gap between neo-liberal educational policy-related discussions about male teacher shortage in elementary schools and…
Descriptors: Role Models, Elementary Schools, Teacher Shortage, Sexual Orientation
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Keddie, Amanda – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2009
Since the 1970s many feminists working for gender justice in education have highlighted the predominance and seriousness of sexual harassment in schools and condemned the enduring trivialization of such behaviours. This paper develops this body of work by focusing on how issues of sexual harassment are located within prevailing contemporary…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Females, Foreign Countries, Males
Kiliçkaya, Ferit, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
The 5th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture has been hosted by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (Burdur, Turkey), in cooperation with Çankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) and Süleyman Demirel University (Isparta, Turkey). Our main aim has been to provide a forum for discussion, to facilitate integration in these fields, and to…
Descriptors: Literature, Conferences (Gatherings), Figurative Language, Speeches
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Ashley, Martin – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2006
In this paper, the notion of "doing boy" through performance is explored. The point is made that singing is a potential gender performance but the treble voice of the 8-year-old to 14-year-old boy is a biologically determined as well as socially constructed feature of young masculinity. A complication is the degree to which the boy's treble voice…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Singing, Sexual Orientation
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Miller, Kathleen E. – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Objective: The author examined gendered links among sport-related identity, endorsement of conventional masculine norms, risk taking, and energy-drink consumption. Participants: The author surveyed 795 undergraduate students enrolled in introductory-level courses at a public university. Methods: The author conducted linear regression analyses of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Regression (Statistics), Masculinity, Athletes
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Mahalingam, Ramaswami; Balan, Sundari – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2008
We examined whether endorsing hyper-masculine attitudes positively related to the psychological well-being of adolescent boys (N=233) in an extreme son preference community, in Tamilnadu, India. A survey with masculinity and measures of psychological well-being was administered. We predicted that endorsement of masculinity would positively relate…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Depression (Psychology)
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Harris, Frank, III; Harper, Shaun R. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2008
Previous research has neglected to explore identities and development among male students at community colleges. This chapter provides some insight into who these men are, their precollege gender socialization experiences, and conflicts that impede the development of productive masculinities.
Descriptors: Socialization, Community Colleges, Role Conflict, Sex Role
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Latova, N. V.; Latov, Iu. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
In this article the authors examine problems of the characteristics of the Westernization of the mentality of college and university students in four countries that are going through modernization: (1) Russia; (2) Turkey; (3) Kazakhstan; and (4) Kyrgyzstan. What the authors mean by "mentality" is the deep-seated "unconscious,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Western Civilization
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Johannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir; Lingard, Bob; Mills, Martin – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
Recognising that there is now a globalised educational discourse about "failing boys" circulating in the privileged nations of the global north, this article provides a comparative perspective on educational policy responses to the "boy turn" in Australia and Iceland. Specificities of the responses to the boy turn in the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Government, Educational Policy, Males
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Spiteri, Damian – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2009
Using a social constructionist approach, this study explores the self-perceptions of young men who, when at school, were classed as boys with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). The aim is to understand how these perceptions were forged throughout the young men's life-courses resulting in changing self-identities. The study also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Self Concept, Identification
Kehler, Michael; Martino, Wayne – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
In drawing on selected interviews with adolescent boys from both Australia and North America, we present an analysis of boys' own capacities for interrogating gender normalisation in their school lives. We set this analysis against a critique of the public media debates about boys' education, which continue to be fuelled by a moral panic about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Males, Adolescents
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Loveless, Douglas J., Ed.; Griffith, Bryant, Ed.; Bérci, Margaret E., Ed.; Ortlieb, Evan, Ed.; Sullivan, Pamela, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
While incorporating digital technologies into the classroom has offered new ways of teaching and learning into educational processes, it is essential to take a look at how the digital shift impacts teachers, school administration, and curriculum development. "Academic Knowledge Construction and Multimodal Curriculum Development" presents…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy, Teacher Attitudes
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Pittman, Frank S. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1991
Recommends that, if one wants to be a therapist to a man, remember a hypermasculine display indicates the man is frightened of his own inadequacy; men who suffer from hypermasculinity cannot tolerate female anger; and hypermasculinity is a shell. Contends men should stop blaming women for what they have become and stop expecting women to fix them.…
Descriptors: Males, Masculinity, Psychology
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