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Boys Adriftby Leonard Sax
Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.99Family physician, psychologist, and acclaimed author of Why Gender Matters reveals the truth about what’s driving the decline of American boysand what we can do about it. more...
Getting it Right for Boys ... and Girlsby Colin Noble; Wendy Bradford
RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 57.50This book offers clear and practical strategies to headteachers, classroom teachers and other professionals for ways to address the issue of boys' underachievement. more...
Understanding the Boysby John Head
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 47.50Attention is given to general aspects of learning and assessment before examining the response of boys to specific subjects within the curriculum. Personal, social and health education concerns are addressed. more...
Boys and Schooling in the Early Yearsby Paul Connolly
RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 52.95This book draws upon original research to examine the specific issues affecting boys and education in the first three years of schooling, and uses this research as a basis from which to explore the implications for teachers and early years workers. more...
Boys and Literacyby Trisha Maynard
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 47.50Trisha Maynard reports the findings of a case study of a primary school whose staff wanted to explore and improve boys' attitudes towards and attainment in literacy, and in particular their difficulties with writing. more...
The Minds of Boysby Michael Gurian; Kathy Stevens
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; US$ 15.95Michael Gurian's blockbuster bestseller The Wonder of Boys is the bible for mothers, fathers, and educators on how to understand and raise boys. It has sold over 400,000 copies, been translated into 17 languages, and sells over 25,000 every year, which is more than any other book on boys in history. To follow up on this first book, which launched the boy's movement, he has now written this revolutionary new book which confronts what he and a lot of other parents and teachers in this country truly believe to be a "boy's crisis". Here are the facts: Boys today are simply not learning as well as girls Boys receive 70% of the Ds and Fs given all students Boys cause 90% of classroom discipline problems 80% of all high school dropouts are... more...
Boys in school and societyby John Cresswell; Ken Rowe; Graeme Withers
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 engaged in the work of schools. This paper focuses on students? achievement and attitudes to school, and the influences that shape different outcomes for boys and girls. Beyond school, a smaller proportion of boys than girls progress to higher education, although a larger proportion of boys participate in vocational education and training programs. Consideration is also given to the broader... more...
What Stories Does My Son Need?by Michael Gurian
Penguin Group Inc. 2000; US$ 10.99The author shows parents and teachers how to harness the media's influence to teach boys the lessons they need in today's confusing moral environment. The author gives particular ethical lessons for many great movies and books. more...
So What's A Boy?by Wayne Martino
McGraw-Hill Education 2003; US$ 47.98Focuses 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 Schoolsby Molly Warrington
McGraw-Hill Education 2006; US$ 43.98Within 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...









