The Resources and Strategies Boys Use to Establish Status in a Junior School without Competitive Sport.
The data in this paper comes from an ethnographically based study of Year 6 (10-11-year-old) boys in an English junior school. It investigates the resources and strategies used and created by the boys to classify themselves, and to construct and perform their masculinity in a tightly regulated schoo...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 91 - 108 |
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