Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the
only witness they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children …

This book brings together leading researchers from Australia, United Kingdom and the
United States to explore issues of boys, schooling and masculinities within the context of the …

A book for teachers and parents of adolescents. It is colorful, absorbing, illuminating, and--
critically--practical. Each chapter draws on the perceptions and writings of teenage boys and …

Teaching Middle Years has established itself as the leading text to focus on the adolescent
years of schooling. Recognition of the educational importance of this age group continues to …

This article reports on an ethnographic study of teenage male secondary school students of
Arabic‐speaking background in a working‐class suburb of Sydney. Interviews with …

This paper summarises the views of 1800 Year 9 to 11 boys about declining rates of
achievement and retention. The boys have been clear and largely uniform in their …

Gendering occurs as an integral part of the routines of everyday life. The construction of
gender is a systematic process that begins at birth and is continually shaped, moulded and …

In enhancing the social and academic outcomes of boys, positive teacher student
relationships and quality pedagogy that is informed by key research-based understandings …

Within an Australian context of diminishing opportunities for equitable educational
outcomes, this paper calls for teacher engagement in a 'politics of resistance'through their …

This paper describes elements of a study concerning the peer group understandings of five
male friends between the ages of six and eight years. In drawing parallels to related work …