Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight
into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected …

Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new
social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds …

Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called'crisis of
masculinity'and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young …

-Half the boys living in working-class suburbs to the west and north of Melbourne fail
mathematics. Why?-Why are so many young people leaving school early, when there are no …

The fact that this book appears in a series focusing on boys and education reflects the
growing interest in the area. Many of the writers contributing to this series have been …

Reproducing Gender charts the development of a theory of gender relations built up over the
last twenty years. This theory has been highly influential in establishing the importance of …

Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process
of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to …

Educating boys is currently seen–both globally and locally–to be in crisis. In fact, there is a
long history to the question: what about the boys? However, it was not until the 1990s that …

T his study examines the refined Student Motivation Scale applied to a sample of 2561
Australian high school students. The Student Motivation Scale measures six motivation …

In this chapter we provide a brief overview of commonly used definitions of beliefs, ways in
which beliefs are measured in general, and in mathematics education research in particular …