BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN BOYS: COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FOR TEACHERS, By Lucinda Neall,(Hawthorn Press, 14.99, 01453 757040), Reviewed by Jennie Lindon, early years consultant.
This is a welcome addition to a genuinely rounded approach to equal opportunities on gender, with the focus on the school situation. Lucinda Neall describes how boys in primary and secondary school can be put in an impossible position by staff who treat them as problems first and children second. The author describes well how some ways of behaving that boys often use can give young males a negative label that travels with them through school.
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