ABSTRACT
This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school. It follows a group of thirteen to fifteen year olds over a period of more than two years, and seeks to understand why so many boys say they hate school yet enjoy being with one another in their daily confrontations with the formal school. The study acknowledges the ongoing significance of the "boys' debate" to policy-makers and the media, and therefore to teachers and parents, but moves it on from issues of gender construction and the panic about achievement to the broader question of what it is to experience being schooled as a boy in the new liberal educational environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |98 pages
Boys in the Frame
chapter |29 pages
Getting at Experience
chapter |28 pages
The Schoolboy as Object of Study
chapter |31 pages
Writing the Schoolboy
chapter |8 pages
Observing Participation
part |137 pages
That Unstable Construct