Women Teaching Boys: Caring and Working in the Primary School

Ever since the achievement of boys became an issue, the media have made much of the "shortage" of male teachers. This book is essential reading for all primary teaching professionals, including trainees, classroom teachers, principals, trainers and school boards. It will provide them with an authoritative reference source on the "problem with boys" and the "feminization of primary schooling".Because it seen as caring rather than academic, primary teaching has been disparaged as low status w...