1st Edition

Learning to Live in Boys’ Schools Art-led Understandings of Masculinities

240 Pages

by Routledge

240 Pages

by Routledge

240 Pages

by Routledge

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This book is about boys’ experiences of being educated in independent single-sex schools in Canada. These experiences, which are oftentimes attributed to particular places and moments at school, reveal ways in which school places are both "companionable" and "influential" in how boys become available to themselves and others as they pursue the possibility of becoming somebody. Curious about how... Read more

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