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Boys' Anti‐School Culture? Narratives and School Practices
Author(s) -
Jonsson Rickard
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12068
Subject(s) - ethnography , narrative , sociology , educational anthropology , gender studies , pedagogy , anthropology , linguistics , philosophy
Boys' underachievement and oppositional behavior in school has for a long time been the target of various public debates. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in two S wedish secondary schools, this article explores how the influential theory of boys' anti‐school culture can be interpreted as a master narrative that is reproduced, but also contradicted and subverted, by students and teachers in social interaction within local school contexts.