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"This text confronts the complacent assumption that ""boys will be boys"" which has resulted in a widespread blindness about the problem of boys in school. It challenges the culture of aggressive manliness within which most boys have grown up and the destructive masculinity that they learn later in life. This challenging is done by critically investigating the key social forces that shape boys - insults, put-downs, sport and the making of masculine bodies and militaristic culture. The book is a balance between theories on boys and classroom practice. Each chapter has a thematic introduction, a series of classroom strategies (including practical suggestions for classroom use), and an ""in the classroom"" section which includes a short account of working with boys on some of these themes in an inner-city comprehensive school."

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Jonathan Salisbury taught in secondary schools for over twenty years and is presently working with boys in an inner-city comprehensive school in Derby as part of a research project. He has also been working with Nottingham Agenda and participating in men's conscious-raising groups for ten years. David Jackson taught in secondary English departments for nearly twenty years. He is co-founder of Nottingham Agenda, an anti-sexist programme that works with abusive and violent men and has been involved in men's groups and masculinity issues for over ten years.

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