Learning to Live in Boys Schools - Art-Led Understandings of Masculinities

List of contents

Part I: Learning to Live in Boys’ Schools: Coming to the Study

1. Studying Boys’ Educational Experiences: An Introduction

2. Reading Andrew D. Cohen’s Essay, Boys School

Part II: Approaching Gender Research from an Art-Led Research Perspective

3. The Promise of Aesthetics

4. The Promise of Photography

5. The Promise of the Curatorial

6. The Promise of Weak Theory

Part III: Learning to Live in Boys’ Schools: Stories that Boys Tell About Themselves and Others

7. On Giving an Account

8. Stories that Boys Tell at Preston Hall School for Boys

9. Stories that Boys Tell at Redmayne College

10. Concluding Thoughts

References

About the author

Dónal O'Donoghue is Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at The University of British Columbia, Canada.

Summary

This study of how boys and young men make sense of themselves, others, and the experience of being educated in private and single-sex schooling explores the concepts of school space and place and the production of self.

Product details

• Authors: Dónal O’Donoghue, Donal O'Donoghue, Donal O''donoghue, O'Donoghue Donal
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367587666
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58766-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; EDUCATION / General, Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, History of Education, Gender studies, gender groups, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Moral & social purpose of education