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• Getting to grips with gender
• Lifting literacies
• Masculinities matter
• Better behaviour
• Finer futures

Issues for schools

Introduction

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.

Key issues

• Getting to grips with gender is central to successful work with boys.
• Lifting literacies will improve educational outcomes for many boys currently at risk.
• Masculinities matter because they shape boys' experiences of life at home, at school and in the outside world.
• Better behaviour will make schools happier, healthier, more productive places for everyone.
• Today's students will have finer futures if they are skilled and flexible in working with diversity and change.

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Professional development activities

Getting to grips with gender

• Sex, gender and equity new window 34k
• Understanding gender new window 201k
• Social construction of gender new window 42k
• Gender construction and school strategies new window 44k
• Good gender policies at school new window 37k

Masculinities matter

• Boys and computer games new window 46k
• Boys and violence in schools: everybody's business new window 54k
• Boys talk about sport new window 37k
• Boys talk about schoolwork new window 37k
• Boys talk about girls new window 37k

Better behaviour

• Sex-based harassment at school new window 40k

Lifting literacies

• Boys and literacy - not a new crisis new window 40k
• What boys say about English new window 38k
• Gender theories, boys and literacy new window 39k
• What counts as literacy at school? new window 35k
• Impacts on literacy - year 3 new window 191k

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

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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