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Underachieving boys – early years development | Something about boys
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Underachieving boys – early years development. October 1, 2009. A quick trawl unearthed this primary national strategy for supporting boys’ achievements. The desirability of getting more chaps involved in early years education is alluded to twice when practitioners are invited to reflect on. 8220;How do you encourage men to work in the early years? Do you, for example, discuss this with other colleagues from other settings, including male practitioners and fathers? October 1, 2009. Enter your comment here.
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Positive media coverage | Something about boys
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October 18, 2009. Who say’s there’s no public debate about how guys are portrayed? Simon Hattenstone recently published a couple of articles. Aimed at redressing the media’s negative image of boys. The first was a rather sunny report on a survey. Of 1000 teenage boys. It found 88% of of them believed their career prospects were good and 88% regarded themselves as ambitious? 97% of juvenille offenders aged 15-17 are boys. 13% of boys aged 11-15 suffer from a mental disorder, compared with 10% of girls.
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Hell in a handcart! | Something about boys
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Hell in a handcart! September 24, 2009. Maybe I’m out of touch, but there doesn’t seem to be much discussion or media activity about boys and what they grow into. The petrol headed, beer drinking football crazy stuff ‘s well documented; less so how to be a dad, a parent, a partner, a mate and a good all round male role model in these post modern, fourth wave feminist, politically correct times. How do we move forward together? Is it really a good idea to ban playing conkers in the playground? You are com...
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October | 2009 | Something about boys
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Monthly Archives: October 2009. No such thing as bad press! I’m not so sure. October 18, 2009. Male role models in early years education. Didn’t the traditional male parent stereotype portray a rather distant, uninvolved figure, capable of dealing blows in the name of discipline and at mum’s discretion? 8220;You just wait until your father gets home.”. October 3, 2009. Underachieving boys – early years development. Do you, for example, discuss this with other colleagues from…. October 1, 2009.
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Male role models in early years education | Something about boys
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Male role models in early years education. October 3, 2009. A further trawl on this subject has turned up a couple of articles that press the question of why men aren’t in the classroom helping with the role modelling, civilizing and instilling of those progressive attitudes. Doing a man’s job the experience of a male primary teacher. 1 in 4 primary schools has no male teacher. Does puberty turn us into bogeymen? 8220;You just wait until your father gets home.”. Hardly inspiring or flattering, but at lea...
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September | 2009 | Something about boys
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Monthly Archives: September 2009. Instilling progressive attitudes is like singing the national anthem. I can remember being scared of imminent fatherhood, such an important role. My father and I apparently met just the once and I’ve felt subsequently that I’ve made a lot up and never been very certain. Maybe that’s a liberating position, maybe that’s what we all do, maybe that’s just how it should be. I…. September 29, 2009. My 10 year old’s take on being a boy. A 10 year old’s opinion.
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Instilling progressive attitudes is like singing the national anthem | Something about boys
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Instilling progressive attitudes is like singing the national anthem. September 29, 2009. Thinking upon my eldest’s remarks the other day I can’t help but feel a little disconcerted. Though the “all girls are more stupid” comment” apparently came from his best friend, the rest are his and quite stereotypical, which is odd as in many respects he doesn’t come across that way at all. I’m tempted to think he was glibly repeating playground opinions. September 29, 2009. Planning a trip to India. There is obvi...
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Another questioning voice | Something about boys
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September 26, 2009. I was moved by Erin Pizzey’s. Recent radio broadcast (The house I grew up in Radio 4), when I think for the first time she openly talked about the domestic violence she experienced as a child. Discipline and hitting kids are issues that often trapse round the back of my mind, but it was her reasons for adopting an anti-feminist stance that helped me start this blog. 8220;This country is now on the brink of serious moral collapse. We. 8220;The other is …a permanent flight of thin...
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