Alex Blower

Lost Boys (eBook, ePUB)

How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the mid-2000s, consistent commentary from politicians and media outlets in the UK have presented low educational attainment and low aspiration as defining attributes of working-class boys in education. It has often characterised them as misogynistic, aggressive and unwilling to learn. But how true is this?

Combining research, real-life case studies and the author's experience of navigating school exclusion, this book provides clear recommendations for how to better support the health, wellbeing and vulnerabilities of working-class boys and men through both policy and practice.

Challenging us to reconsider ideas about the role of masculinity in the lives of working-class boys and men, the book asks what would change if, instead of focusing on perceived individual failures, we considered the troubled relationship between working-class boys and the social and educational systems in which they reside.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447370260
• Artikelnr.: 72554963

Autorenporträt

Alex Blower is Research Fellow at Arts University Bournemouth. Having faced challenges related to mental ill health and school exclusion as a young man, his motivation for writing this book is as personal as it is professional.