The following sections investigate important issues for schools wishing to work more effectively with boys.
By making links between ideas about masculinity and some boys' attitudes to risk-taking, bullying and literacy, many problems become easier to understand and challenge.
Better still, by helping students to see that gender is constructed - not simply set by biology or society - we provide them with the tools to choose happier, healthier pathways for themselves.
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Professional development activities
Getting to grips with gender
Masculinities matter
Better behaviour
Lifting literacies
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School stories
Benowa State School
Which boys? Which girls? Literacy and students at educational risk
How one school worked on issues of boys and literacy
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Boys talk
Boys' experiences of masculinity
Ian's story
Collective pressures
Boys versus girls
Boys and sport
Boys and schoolwork
Boys talk about English and reading
What do boys say about what 'macho' means?
Other boys talk about homophobia.
What do boys say about diverse masculinities?
What one boy says about 'gender boundaries' and school work.
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