Male Underachievement in High School Education: Jamaica, Barbados, and St.Vincent and the Grenadines
By Odette Parry.
Description
The growing regional and international concerns about the educational performance of males reflect a broader social anxiety about the plight of men in general and black men in particular. This concern has culminated in the marginalized male thesis, which has gained considerable academic attention and popular support in the media. In addressing the issue of male underachievement, the book challenges the popularly held assumption that boys fail because girls achieve. Rather than blaming Caribbean females for male underachievement, the book locates male educational performance in the historica...
ISBN(s)
976812573X, 9789768125736
