Lewis Wedlock

Masculinities in Schools (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Teachers are struggling with issues and conversations around masculinities in schools. How do we discuss problem areas associated with masculinities, without demonising the young men we are engaging with? How do we create safe spaces for young people to discuss and challenge their masculinities together? It has never been harder to engage young men in conversations about masculinity, and it has never been more confusing to know where to start.

Educator and social scientist Lewis Wedlock enables schools and teachers to grow their confidence in exploring masculinities with young people. He challenges limiting ideas of masculinity and takes a compassionate, restorative approach. Through this book, Lewis supports teachers to deepen their understanding of how masculinities are shaped, to explore the many complexities and to get comfortable with the uncertainties. He offers practical guidance for the classroom and for transformative, community centred interventions. He empowers teachers to feel confident in implementing sustainable, flexible, and constantly mendable models of masculinity.

The subject of masculinities is often approached through a lens of 'toxicity', prompting disengagement and disconnection. This book takes a different approach. It is not about polarizing, demonizing, or standardizing masculinities. It supports and advocates for schools to be open to the wide diversity of masculinities and to develop cultures of accountability, integrity, authenticity, and pride.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781036206840
• Artikelnr.: 73818177

Autorenporträt

Lewis Wedlock is an educator, social psychologist and mental health professional from Bristol, UK. With an expertise in masculinities and young people centred mental health interventions, Lewis has works with secondary schools across the UK to help young men explore their ideas of masculinity. His TEDx talk, "The Crisis of Masculinity" propelled Lewis's, compassion rich, restorative work with young men to an international audience. He advises local and national governments on engaging with masculinities around areas such as misogyny, mental health and embodied allyship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 - Contextualising masculinity
1. Beginning The Ascent: Establishing key terms and concepts for the
journey ahead
2. Where we are now
3. Exploring the complexities of masculinities
4. What is going on for young men at the moment?
5. Embracing messiness
Part 2 - The process of working with masculinities
6. Unpacking 'methodologies'
7. Current Interventions: Why the work isn't working as well as it could
8. Why punitive pathways don't work
9. Punitive to restorative: Reflective work in sanctioned spaces
10. Why anger management work doesn't always work
11. Structured physical outlets with structured, structural examination
12. Why one-off guest speakers are not enough
13. Demographic Bias: Moving away from blanketised assumptions
14. What are psychographics?
15. Psychographics and contextual semantics
Part 3 - "Newniversal" Masculinity Work
16. Planetary exploration
17. The foundations of the process
18. Observe the cosmos
19. Embrace an awareness of your own understanding and biases
20. Acknowledging and exploring positionality
21. Visiting other worlds
22. The route ahead - what comes next?