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Heroes or zeroes? The discursive positioning of 'underachieving boys' in English neo-liberal education policy

Tác giả

Francis B.

Năm xuất bản

2006

Source title

Journal of Education Policy

Số trích dẫn

119

DOI

10.1080/02680930500500278

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-31844444339&doi=10.1080%2f02680930500500278&partnerID=40&md5=7a4b7f0e117f696c5d1611745df7aaee

Tóm tắt

The moral panic concerning 'boys' underachievement' is well established in the UK and Australia, and is spreading to other countries. Feminists have articulated concerns that this debate has reflected a 'poor boys' discourse with negative permutations for girls' schooling; and there is much evidence to support this claim. However, it is argued here that as a result of the location of under-achievement in the individual rather than with social structures by neo-liberal policy movements, in England certain groups of 'failing' boys are increasingly being problematized rather than valorized. Boys generally are presented as vulnerable and 'at risk'. The 'poor boys' discourse position these boys as in need of help and attention. But within these practices certain groups of boys are beginning to be demonized for their apparent wastefulness of resources and failure to take responsibility for their own achievement. The article draws on work by Bauman and Foucault as well as feminist theory in order to tease out some of the complex inter-weavings of gender and neo-liberal discourses at work in English educational policy.

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