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Oatmeal Facials and Sock Wrestling: The Perils and Promises of Extra-Curricular Strategies for 'Fixing' Boys' Education
- Source :
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Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education . Dec 2010 31(5):683-697. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Advocates for boys' education have forwarded numerous "fixes" for boys' supposed educational woes, including both academic and non-academic programs and strategies. This article focuses on the lesser-discussed non-academic, extra-curricular means suggested, specifically outdoor education. Using qualitative analysis of an Australian school's outdoor education program, I demonstrate that outdoor and other non-academic sites and strategies for addressing boys' education have particular gendered dangers alongside progressive possibilities. The dangers include reproducing dominant masculinist gender regimes through social interaction, requirements for gendered self-disclosure, and philosophies of the "uses" of nature. Progressive possibilities, conversely, include re-imagining outdoor education as a space for explicit resistance to gender or reimagining the uses of nature to eschew gender altogether.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0159-6306
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ901717
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2010.516953