Browsing by Subject "Gender and education"
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Contradictions and tensions of the practice of masculinities in school: interrogating embodiment and 'good buddy talk'
(Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2005)Masculinity, and gender more broadly, has been theorised as a series of performative and discursive acts (Butler, 1990) which are constituted contextually and culturally. Not only are masculinities enacted differently ... -
Interrogating the call for more male primary school teachers as role models for boys: 'I don't care if it is male or female, I just want to learn!'
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-21)Abstract The education of girls and boys in Irish primary schools is one of the most imperative aspects of our children’s lives, yet it seems to be an area in which important focus shifts towards essentialist, simplistic ...