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Gender - Crisis of Masculinity - Coggle Diagram
Gender - Crisis of Masculinity
Mac an Grail - a reaction to the changing structure of employment and the decline of traditional working class jobs.
Impact of globalisation: moved industrial work to developing world and UK became a service sector economy.
Men became demotivated, lack self-esteem and seek status from other activities
What is the crisis of masculinity?
How does this impact on boys' education?
Men resort to hegemonic masculine identities to gain status
Feminisation of education leads boys to reject education as its 'not masculine'
Laddish behaviours, anti-school attitudes, and competitiveness present in males across social classes
Evidence to support crisis of masculinity:
Males underachieve compared to female counterparts in all social classes and ethnic groups
Jackson - laddish behaviours present in lower social classes cannot be corrected by additional work at home.
Francis - laddish behaviour is a backlash agains feminism and political correctness.
Ward - traditional working-class behaviour displayed by some males does not mean they reject importance of education
'Geeks' in Ward's study adapted better than the 'Boiz' to changing social attitudes
How has policy tried to address the crisis of masculinity?
Raising boys' achievement project
EYFS campaigns to engage boys - forest schools
Changes to curriculum to revert from modular to linear assessment, removal of coursework
Working-class males most likely to underachieve