The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and SchoolingMairtin Mac an Ghaill explores how boys learn to be men in schools while policing their own and others' sexuality. The text focuses on the students' confusions and contradictions in their gendered experiences; and upon how schools actively produce, through the official and hidden curriculum, a range of masculinities which young men come to inhabit. The author attempts to do full justice to the complex phenomenon of male heterosexual subjectivities and to the role of schooling in forming sexual identities. |
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I came to read this incident as illustrative of the highly problematic formation of
modern modes of masculinity within the context of school life . This was not the
framework with which I began the research . My initial focus over - emphasized ...
I came to read this incident as illustrative of the highly problematic formation of
modern modes of masculinity within the context of school life . This was not the
framework with which I began the research . My initial focus over - emphasized ...
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... within school ; saw students as clients ; adopted an assimilationist approach to
black students but used language of multiculturalism , and equal opportunities for
girls ; highly visible supporter of curricular initiatives , including vocationalism .
... within school ; saw students as clients ; adopted an assimilationist approach to
black students but used language of multiculturalism , and equal opportunities for
girls ; highly visible supporter of curricular initiatives , including vocationalism .
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The teachers were often confused by the Real Englishmen ' s highly competent
communication skills , with their appeal to rationality and fairness , that enabled
the latter discursively to invert classroom power relations , with teachers ...
The teachers were often confused by the Real Englishmen ' s highly competent
communication skills , with their appeal to rationality and fairness , that enabled
the latter discursively to invert classroom power relations , with teachers ...
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Contents
Teacher ideologies representations and practices | 15 |
Local student cultures of masculinity and sexuality | 51 |
Learning to become a heterosexual man at school | 89 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling |
| Authors | Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, An Gha Mac |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Open University Press, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0335157823, 9780335157822 |
| Length | 209 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / General |
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