Masculinity and Aspiration in an Era of Neoliberal Education: International Perspectives [Paperback]

This collection investigates the ways in which boys and young men negotiate neoliberal discourse surrounding aspiration and how neoliberalism shapes their identities. Expanding the field of masculinity studies in education, the contributors offer international comparisons of different subgroups of boys and young men in primary, secondary and university settings. A cross-sectional analysis of race, gender, and class theory is employed to illuminate the role of aspiration in shaping boys identities, which adds nuance to their complex identity work in neoliberal times.

Introduction Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson, Derron O. Wallace Part I 1. Policy Logics, Counter-Narratives, and New Directions: Boys and Schooling in a Neoliberal Age Konstanze Spohrer and Garth Stahl Part II 2. Aspiration Anxieties: Developing Middle-Class Manhood among Black African Boys in London Derron O. Wallace 3. White Working-Class Boys in the Neoliberal Meritocracy: The Pitfalls of the Aspiration-Raising Agenda Sam Baars 4. Im Not Just One Type of Person : Aspirational Working-Class Belfast Boys and Complex Embodied Performances of Educationally Successful Masculinities Nicola Ingram 5. Coming of Age through the Recession: High School Imaginings of Post-Recession Futures in New York City Patrick Alexander 6. I want to be a soccer player or a mathematician: Fifth-grade Black boys' aspirations at a neoliberal single-sex school Joseph Derrick Nelson 7. Without my education I cant be somebody: Latino Masculinity, School Contexts and Aspiration Mellie Torres 8. (Re)masculinizing Suzhi Jiaoyu (Education for Quality): Aspirational Values of Modernity in Neoliberal China Xiaodong Lin and M?irt?n &llS4