There is so little appetite around men and boys advocacy, I am afraid, in many ways, I am the best you’ve got right now.

I can try to answer your questions, with the best information available, but so often the real answer I want to say is: “we dont know.”

We don’t know, because nobody cares enough to find out.

The political apathy and disinterest in men and boys issues is palpable, and important questions are often missing answers.

Perhaps this is no more pertinent than it is within boys educational outcomes, where boys continue to fall well below girls, in every area, at every age group, in every developed country, and every year.

So why are boys behind?

Is it teacher bias? Are learning styles less suitable for their needs? Are they being left behind in affirmative action? Do we need more male teachers? Maybe it’s all, or none of the above, or something else entirely?

“We don’t know.”

And we won’t know until someone asks.

So, amongst the shrugs and empty handed answers for this question, and many others besides, is it finally time we appointed a UK Government Minster for Men and Boys, to find out?

What do you think?

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Podcast with Conor Ryan, Eyes Wide Open, link: https://rb.gy/lb679l @conormryan

Sources
The Difference between Girls and Boys Learning
https://tinyurl.com/2p8uew92

Teaching to the minds of boys
https://tinyurl.com/yckkrhzm

The Early Education of Males: Where Are We Failing Them? https://tinyurl.com/2r966bk7

The Plight of the Male Teacher: An Interdisciplinary and Multileveled Theoretical Framework for Researching a Shortage of Male Teachers
https://tinyurl.com/jwxhbu77

Redshirting the Boys, The Atlantic
https://tinyurl.com/2tz6n9a6

OECD Teacher Bias Study
https://tinyurl.com/5n95rshf

#fyp #boys #mensissues #education

2024-04-30