Women teaching boys : caring and working in the primary school / Martin Ashley and John Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashley, Martin, 1953-

Contributor:

Lee, John, 1944-

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boys--Education (Elementary)--Great Britain.

Boys.

Elementary school teachers--Great Britain.

Elementary school teachers.

Women teachers--Great Britain.

Women teachers.

Sex differences in education--Great Britain.

Sex differences in education.

Boys--Education (Elementary).

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 151 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stoke-on-Trent ; Sterling, VA : Trentham Books, 2003.

Summary:

Ever since the achievement of boys became an issue, the media have made much of the 'shortage' of male teachers. This book is essential reading for all primary teaching professionals, including trainees, classroom teachers, heads, trainers and governors. It will provide them with an authoritative reference source on the 'problem with boys' and the 'feminisation of primary schooling'. Because it seen as caring rather than academic, primary teaching has been disparaged as low status women's work. Men teachers are encouraged at first but are then regarded as suspect because of the caring role. This book challenges much of the accepted wisdom about boys and men. Drawing on the authority of the boys' own voices, it redefines the profile of a good primary teacher as one which men and women, it seems, are equally capable of matching. The refreshing conclusion is that feminisation is not to blame for the 'problem' with boys. The authors are both experienced teacher trainers at the University of the West of England. With contributions to the book by their female colleagues, they bring an insightful new vision to an area of research that has until now been dominated by women. This is a book for primary school teachers, parents, teacher educators and education policy makers.

Contents:

Chapter 1 How policy makers have created a 'problem-with-boys' 1

Chapter 2 Teaching, caring and professionalism 15

Chapter 3 The problem-with-boys in History 33

Chapter 4 Attachment Theory as a basis for understanding boys in school 49

Chapter 5 Attachment Behaviour as a theory of caring and teaching 61

Chapter 6 What boys think about being taught 77

Chapter 7 What boys think about being cared for 97

Chapter 8 Teachers and mothers 115

Chapter 9 Towards an androgynous curriculum 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-148) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1858562783

OCLC:

52565671