Male Underachievement in High School Education: In Jamaica, Barbados, and st Vincent and the Grenadines - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 976812573X ISBN 13: 9789768125736

Publisher: University Press of the West Indies, 2001

Synopsis

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 historical context of Caribbean gender relationships, and structural constraints on the development of Caribbean gender identities. UNICEF and the Institute of Social and Economic Research funded the research on gender and Caribbean high school achievement upon which this book is based. Odette Parry and her colleagues conducted extensive in-depth interviews and participant observation research at schools in Jamaica, Barbados, and St Vincent and the Grenadines. After providing the research background and acknowledging the effect of the interviewers' cultural differences, Parry discusses key findings in t

About this title

About the Author:

Odette Parry is Research Fellow at the Research Unit in Health and Behavioural Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School. She spent three years, 1993-1996, at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 976812573X
• ISBN 13: 9789768125736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• Editor: Parry Odette