In this review, we scope the role of interpersonal relationships in students' academic
motivation, engagement, and achievement. We argue that achievement motivation theory …

Although the majority of research in gender and education has rightly focused on girls,
recent research in the United States and elsewhere has focused much more on the learning …

John Dewey was a pragmatist, progressivist, educator, philosopher, and social reformer
(Gutek, 2014). Dewey's various roles greatly impacted education and he was perhaps one of …

Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is
both engaging and accessible. Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical …

When it was first published over a decade ago, RW Connell's ground-breaking text on the
nature and construction of masculine identity rapidly became a classic. In Masculinities …

This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in
assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts …

Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth.
Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from …

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of
the way we regulate children's access to certain knowledge and explores how this …

Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities takes an insightful and in-depth look at the hidden worlds
of young children's sexualities. Based upon extensive group interviews and observation, the …

What counts as 'good'youth research? In considering a response to this important question,
at the very outset we would want to argue for the centrality of ethical practice. According to …