Australian boys' and girls' educational performances and achievements have been continuously on the educational agenda since the early 1970s. Then the prime concern was for girls whose educational opportunities were so limiting that their performances vis-a-vis boys' were significantly lower. In the last 30 years, however, there has been a growing and pronounced reversal of boys' dominance and this reversal has prompted educational debate often in terms of a 'boys' crisis' requiring prompt attention. In contrast to the educational debates of the early 1970s many Australian educators' and writers' attentions in the last decade have been on boys' allegedly inferior performance, retention, and participation. Boys have become more noteworthy for their disengagement and disappearance than for their achievement.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/284004 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Steventon, Robert N. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | EN-AUS |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright Robert Steventon 2008 |
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