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Abstract
In drawing on selected interviews with adolescent boys from both Australia and North America, we present an analysis of boys’ own capacities for interrogating gender normalisation in their school lives. We set this analysis against a critique of the public media debates about boys’ education, which continue to be fuelled by a moral panic about the status of boys as the new disadvantaged. Our aim is to raise questions about boys’ existing capacities for problematizing social relations of masculinity and how these might be mobilized in schools to support a counter‐ hegemonic practice committed to interrogating gender oppression. Key words: gender reform, boys’ education, masculinities, normalization A partir d’un choix d’entrevues effectuees aupres d’adolescents venant de l’Australie et de l’Amerique du Nord, les auteurs presentent une analyse des capacites de ces garcons de remettre en question la normalisation en fonction des sexes dans leur vie scolaire. Les auteurs opposent cette analyse a une critique des debats dans les medias sur l’education des garcons, lesquels continuent a etre alimentes par une panique morale au sujet du statut des garcons consideres comme les nouveaux defavorises. L’objectif vise est de soulever des questions sur les capacites des garcons de problematiser les relations sociales masculines et de voir comment ces aptitudes pourraient etre mobilisees dans les ecoles pour appuyer une demarche antihegemonique visant a remettre en question l’oppression basee sur le sexe. Mots cles : reforme et sexes, education des garcons, masculinites, normalisation
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The Canadian Journal of Education (CJE) is a national peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the membership of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. The CJE prioritizes research and scholarly writing that is of relevance to the Canadian education community. The journal is read by scholars worldwide, and aims to represent the valuable contributions that Canadian scholars in education continue to make to the field. The Journal accepts and publishes both French and English articles and book reviews. CJE on occasion also publishes international papers that shed light on shared issues and that include Canadian authors as references.