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  • On leadership and fitting in: dominant understandings of masculinities within an early primary peer group.

    Author(s)
    Keddie, Amanda
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Keddie, Amanda
    Year published
    2003
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    Abstract
    This paper argues the importance of examining the collective dimension of masculinities in the early school years through a description of a study into children's (young males') peer group relations. Specifically, the paper attends to the significance of the peer group in shaping behaviour, and in particular exaggerated 'masculine' behaviours, and illuminates the inadequacies of conventional teacher practices that individualise and pathologise group behaviours. The nature and dynamics of the peer group and the way these dynamics interact to form particular understandings of masculinity are illuminated through a snapshot ...
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    This paper argues the importance of examining the collective dimension of masculinities in the early school years through a description of a study into children's (young males') peer group relations. Specifically, the paper attends to the significance of the peer group in shaping behaviour, and in particular exaggerated 'masculine' behaviours, and illuminates the inadequacies of conventional teacher practices that individualise and pathologise group behaviours. The nature and dynamics of the peer group and the way these dynamics interact to form particular understandings of masculinity are illuminated through a snapshot of the study's data, presented as a narrative. Drawing on elements of group socialisation theory, within a post-structural foregrounding of socio-political relations of power, the contextuality and contingency of the young males' peer group behaviours are interpreted.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Educational Researcher
    Volume
    30
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03216782
    Subject
    Education not elsewhere classified
    Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/32511
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