Three biographical interviews over 3 years were conducted with 100 young adults. Cases of three disadvantaged females in transition from compulsory schooling illustrate that material and individual resources are distributed very unequally. The rhetoric of individual success is tempered by gender- and class-based obligations, and success for these…

Work with 17 teachers conducting cooperative research under the British government's Best Practice Research model identified underlying tensions: conflict between the process of becoming a researcher and focus on findings; relationship between practice and research; the issue of what counts as learning; and conflicting intentions (government focus…

Mainstream inclusion of students with emotional and behavioral difficulties is based on student rights, yet these conflict with other legal and civil rights. British case law examples suggest that conflicting rights result in more segregated provision. Current legal provisions are inadequate, and attitudinal changes are also required. (Contains 62…

Interviews with 600 youth aged 10-18, many from immigrant families, explored how they learn about citizenship and define themselves and their communities. They identify strongly with their city or neighborhood but also have multiple identities, a cosmopolitan citizenship that bridges several worlds. Education for cosmopolitan citizenship should…

Discusses developments in global education and its core elements or dimensions (issues, spatial, temporal, process). Outlines a global education curriculum in terms of skills, knowledge, values, and attitudes. (Contains 33 references.) (SK)

Three historians have recently questioned the moral and social significance of Holocaust education. However, it is unrealistic to demand that education result in complete cessation of atrocities. Holocaust education has lessons to impart in the areas of commemoration, antiracism, moral development, and socialization. (Contains 37 references.) (SK)

Discusses William Galston's view that Isaiah Berlin's moral and political philosophy is foundational for diversity liberalism. Argues that a more balanced view of Berlin is less helpful than Galston proposes, because Berlin's work is permeated by a tension between the importance of belonging to a community and the importance of individual liberty.…

This review of research investigates ways in which the resurgence of the political right and the feminist backlash have attempted to impose a "common-sense" concept of masculinity on the education of boys. Explores the effect of masculinity on boys' literacy practices and argues for teaching practices grounded in social construction of gender.…

Discourses of concern about boys' schooling do not address complexities of boys' lives. Critical scholarship in masculinities highlights the effects of heteronormative privilege and offers alternative practices. A focus on the social gendered performance of boys rather than the claim that girls get too much attention may be more productive.…

Interviews with 10 young men ages 15-20 explored why they voluntarily participate in gender equity activities. The influences of teachers, family, and peers in shaping gender consciousness enabled them to recognize male privilege. Ways to give males tools to understand gender relations are recommended. (Contains 27 references.) (SK)

In postindustrial society, masculinities at school must be understood in the context of family, history, locality, and global change. An ethnography of white working-class male school subculture shows how they resist globalization by asserting traditional masculinity, providing the illusion of stability. (Contains 40 references.) (SK)

Interviews with three teenage boys and their parents in a middle-class community explored why the boys self-identify as reluctant readers, resisting approved forms of literacy. They pursue types of reading that contribute to their construction of masculine identities; their parents' attempts to influence reading are conditioned by traditional…

An ethnographic study of 10-11 year-old boys' construction of gender and sexual identities illustrates the complex and contradictory aspects of heterosexuality. The study suggests how boys define their heterosexualities through projections of fantasies, imagined futures, misogynistic objectification of females, and homophobic performances.…

A study of the attitudes of British student teachers (118 male, 92 female) toward gender indicated that male student teachers of 7-11 year-olds were more likely to be concerned about and supportive of traditional images of masculinity than were males training to teach 3-8 year-olds. (Contains 33 references.) (SK)

Explores the use of dance in physical education as a pedagogical tool for examining heterosexual male embodiment. Discusses how dance offers the potential for disruptive, discomforting, and pleasurable experiences that illustrate how bodies carry and construct gendered meanings. Contains 50 references. (SK)