Boys Don't Try? Rethinking Masculinity in Schools: Rethinking Masculinity in Sch [Hardcover]

1. The Engagement Myth  2. Disadvantaged Students  3. Peer Pressure  4. Mental Health  5. Expectations  6. Sex and Sexism  7. In the Classroom  8. Violence  9. Relationships  10. Other Voices

There is a significant problem in our schools: too many boys are struggling. Traditional ideas about masculinity are having a negative impact, not only on males, but females too. In this ground-breaking book, Matt Pinkett and Mark Roberts argue that schools must rethink their efforts to get boys back on track.

Matt Pinkett is a Head of English in Surrey with a personal and professional interest in gender in schools. Matt has written for a number of publications on this topic  and others  and also writes a blog in which he discusses teaching and masculinity.

Mark Roberts is Assistant Principal at a mixed 1118 comprehensive school in Devon. Previously, he worked at an inner-city comprehensive for boys in Manchester. Mark writes a blog about teaching English and is also a frequent contributor to TES on subjects including pedagogy, behaviour, leadership, and educational research.

Foreword by Mary Myatt.

What do we want for our boys? Matt and Mark explode myths, challenge some of our preconceptions and suggest alternative routes to success in our raising and educating of boys. And they don't dodge the most sensitive issues.

This is a thoughtful, balanced, thoroughly-researched, eminently sensible and practical consideration of how we can support boys to be their best in the classroom and beyond it. It recognises and addresses the pressures boys are under as they make their journey towards manhood. Mark and Matt skilfully demonstrate that if we help boys in schools we will improve education for gilS²