Masculinity and Education

Amanda Coffey is Professor in Social Sciences and Dean of Education in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. Her research interests centre on ethnographic and qualitative research, and include work on young people and social change, gender and education and working lives. Amanda Coffey’s publications include Researching Young People, with Hall (2011), Key Themes in Qualitative Research, with Atkinson and Delamont (2003), Education and Social Change (2001) and The Ethnographic Self (1999).David James is Professor in Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK and Director of the ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Centre. His research interests focus on the relationship between education and social inequalities. David James’ publications include White Middle Class Identities and Urban Schooling, with Reay and Crozier (2011), Improving Learning Cultures in Further Education, with Biesta (2007) and Bourdieu and Education: Acts of Practical Theory, with Grenfell (1999).

• Editorial Amanda Coffey and David James 1. 'The Money's Good, The Fame's Good, The Girls are Good': The role of playground football in the construction of young boys' masculinity in a junior school Jon Swain 2. Learning the 'Hard' Way: Boys, hegemonic masculinity and the negotiation of learner identities in the primary school Emma Renold 3. Welcome to the New Ambivalence: Reflections on the historical and current cultural antagonism between the working class male and higher education Andrew Marks 4. Muscularity, the Habitus and the Social Construction of Gender: Towards a gender-relevant physical education Trish Gorely, Rachel Holroyd and David Kirk 5. Attracting, recruiting and retaining male teachers: policy issues in the male teacher debate Martin Mills, Wayne Martino and Bob Lingard 6. Mathematical stories: why do more boys than girls choose to study mathematics at AS-level in England? Heather Mendick 7. New Labour, new leaders? Gendering transformational leadership Cath Lambert 8. ‘I don’t do the mothering role that lots of female teachers do’: male teachers, gender, power and social organisation Malcolm Haase 9. ‘Walking yourself around as a teacher’: gender and embodiment in student teachers’ working lives Annette Braun 10. Schooling, masculinity and class analysis: towards an aesthetic of subjectivities Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood

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