Mentors and Role Models: Masculinity and the educational 'underachievement' of young Afro-Caribbean males

Role models and confidants? Students with and without migration backgrounds and their perception of teachers with migration backgrounds

“…Odih, 2002). Furthermore, when teachers without migration backgrounds, e.g., solely consider their colleagues with migration backgrounds as responsible (1) for the academic achievement of students with migration backgrounds and (2) for solving those students' problems or even call those students themselves or their families to account for low academic achievements, it raises the danger of disregarding the culturalization of social, pedagogical and schooling processes and fosters 'deficit theorizing' (cf.…”

Underperformance or ‘getting it right’? Constructions of gender and achievement in the Australian inquiry into boys’ education

“…Nuanced analyses of the ways in which power inequalities around race, class and sexuality confound gendered performance patterns (for example , Odih 2002;Phoenix, Frosh, and Pattman 2003) have been sidelined in favour of homogenised accounts of achievement presented in boys-versus-girls terms (Griffin 2000;Mills, Martino, and Lingard 2007). Likewise, a singular emphasis on within-school achievement has turned attention away from ongoing gendered power differentials beyond school contexts -and from the finding that girls' achievement has not converted into relative success (or even comparable options) in tertiary education and workplace spheres (Vickers 2005;Collins, Kenway, and McLeod 2000).…”

Hip Hop Honey or Video Ho: African American Preadolescents’ Understanding of Female Sexual Scripts in Hip Hop Culture

“…These influences clearly extended to the participants in the study, particularly the female preadolescents, who expressed negative attitudes and intolerance toward the Dyke script sexual behaviors. As was found among men in prior research, the male preadolescents in this study shared the same resistance to accepting this sexual script, yet still found the potential of engaging in female-female-male sex alluring enough to lessen their rejection of women who appeared to follow this sexual script (e.g., Jackson 1997;Odih 2002;Rehin 2003).…”