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Raising Boys' Achievement in Secondary Schools
McGraw-Hill Education 2005; US$ 151.00Evaluates different approaches and advocating evidence-based strategies, which have the potential to promote boys' and girls' achievements. This book discusses the approaches within the context of inclusivity, acknowledging the needs and interests of different boys, and the invisibility and disadvantage of some girls. more...
Teaching Boys
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 31.81Bridges the gap between theory and practice to offer a practical and sustainable framework for teaching boys in classrooms of all levels. more...
Raising Boys Achievement
Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 140.00Raising Boys' Achievement explores the causes of boys' underachievement and moves on to suggest tried-and-tested strategies to raise standards of achievement. The book encourages and challenges teachers to devise solutions based on research with their individual boys, and not to rely too heavily on commonly-held broad generalisations. What... more...
Boys and Their Schooling
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 140.00This book presents an ethnographic study of the experiences of teenage boys in an Australian high school. It follows a group of thirteen to fifteen year olds over a period of more than two years, and seeks to understand why so many boys say they hate school yet enjoy being with one another in their daily confrontations with the formal school. The... more...
How to Raise Boys' Achievement
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95This book gives practical help to anybody who wishes to learn anything about the practical and accessible ways to raise boys' achievement in primary and secondary schools. Its down-to-earth language, easy style and rational sequencing of actions will appeal to all readers. This is essentially a handbook that can be used for reference, background reading,... more...
Boys and Schooling in the Early Years
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 52.95Boys' underachievement in education has now become a global concern, taxing the minds of governments across the Western world. Boys and Schooling in the Early Years represents the first major study of its kind to focus specifically on young boys and achievement. It makes a powerful argument for the need to begin tackling the problem of boys' lower... more...
Boys in school and society
Australian Council for Educational Research 2002; US$ 14.95In the past decade there has been a growing perception in Australia that girls have become more successful pursuing their educational goals than boys ? especially in educational outcomes relating to literacy. In addition there is evidence from a range of studies that boys regard their school experience less favourably than girls and are less strongly... more...
So What's A Boy?
McGraw-Hill Education 2003; US$ 231.00Focuses on the impact and effects of masculinities on the lives of boys at school. Through interviews with boys from diverse backgrounds, this book explores the various ways in which boys define and negotiate their masculinities at school. It offers recommendations and indicates directions for working with boys in school. more...
Raising Boys' Achievement in Primary Schools
McGraw-Hill Education 2006; US$ 186.00Within the context of empirical research undertaken by the authors during the course of a four-year research and intervention project on Raising Boys' Achievement, this book focuses on approaches that are successful in raising achievement for boys, and the reasons for that success. more...
The Problem with Boys' Education
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 43.95This book offers an illuminating analysis of the theories, politics, and realities of boys? education around the world -- an insightful and often disturbing account of various educational systems? successes and failings in fostering intellectual and social growth in male students. Examining original research on the impact of implementing boys? education... more...









