Possibilities in the boy turn? Comparative lessons from Australia and Iceland
Recognising that there is now a globalised educational discourse about “failing boys” circulating in the privileged nations of the global north, this article provides a comparative perspective on educational policy responses to the “boy turn” in Australia and Iceland. Specificities of the responses...
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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:180393 2023-05-15T16:46:18+02:00 Possibilities in the boy turn? Comparative lessons from Australia and Iceland Johannesson, Ingólfur Ásgeir Lingard, Bob Mills, Martin O. L. Martinsen 2009-08-01 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:180393 eng eng Routledge doi:10.1080/00313830903043083 issn:0031-3831 issn:1470-1170 orcid:0000-0002-4101-9985 orcid:0000-0003-2168-3536 Boys' education Comparative Education Masculinity Profeminist intervention C1 93 Education and Training 13 Education 1303 Specialist Studies in Education 130308 Gender Sexuality and Education Journal Article 2009 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.1080/00313830903043083 2020-08-04T14:09:25Z Recognising that there is now a globalised educational discourse about “failing boys” circulating in the privileged nations of the global north, this article provides a comparative perspective on educational policy responses to the “boy turn” in Australia and Iceland. Specificities of the responses to the boy turn in the two societies offer interesting insights into this policy domain. For instance, Australian policy has been state-centric with the media playing a significant role in backlash politics and with federal government funding interventions for boys, and Iceland was the only nation in which girls outperformed boys in all areas of mathematics in the PISA 2003 study. The article concludes by arguing the need for a renewed feminist and profeminist agenda to challenge dominant constructions of masculinity and for the establishment of a more equal gender order. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 53 4 309 325 |
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Recognising that there is now a globalised educational discourse about “failing boys” circulating in the privileged nations of the global north, this article provides a comparative perspective on educational policy responses to the “boy turn” in Australia and Iceland. Specificities of the responses to the boy turn in the two societies offer interesting insights into this policy domain. For instance, Australian policy has been state-centric with the media playing a significant role in backlash politics and with federal government funding interventions for boys, and Iceland was the only nation in which girls outperformed boys in all areas of mathematics in the PISA 2003 study. The article concludes by arguing the need for a renewed feminist and profeminist agenda to challenge dominant constructions of masculinity and for the establishment of a more equal gender order. |
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Possibilities in the boy turn? Comparative lessons from Australia and Iceland |
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Possibilities in the boy turn? Comparative lessons from Australia and Iceland |
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Possibilities in the boy turn? Comparative lessons from Australia and Iceland |
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