Primary School Boys' Identity Formation and the Male Role Model: An exploration of sexual identity and gender identity in the UK through attachment theory

‘Playtime in the Borderlands’: Children's Representations of School, Gender and Bullying through Photographs and Interviews

“…Although Moir and Moir (1999) suggested that an increase in the number of male teachers may counter the antiacademic 'laddish' culture prevalent in schools. Ashley (2003) and Skelton (2001) questioned the efficacy of this approach if those recruited are imbued with the same culture. This case study supports Ashley and Skelton with the male role model conforming to hegemonic masculine type, and female staff members often displaying similar attitudes.…”

Invisible Difference in Space: The Role of Different Spaces in Homophobic Bullying in Schools

“…Studies by Ashley (2003), Reid, Monsen, and Rivers (2004), Askew (1989), and Dupper and Meyer-Adams (2002) demonstrate that teachers who convey that some people are respected less than others by sarcasm, shouting, threats, ridicule, and favoritism may be directly attributing to bullying. The reflections of the respondents show this and, in particular, Daniel felt that his PE teachers showed favoritism and that this reinforced homophobic bullying.…”

Male teacher shortage: black teachers’ perspectives

“…Such policy-related critique and empirical research have drawn attention to the fallacious assumptions at the basis of the call for more male teachers in elementary schools, as well as the problem of failing to engage with research-based literature about the impact and effects of hegemonic masculinities on male teachers' lives in schools (see Ashley 2003;Carrington and McPhee 2008;Francis 2008;Pepperell and Smedley 1998;Skelton 2002Skelton , 2003. In addition, more specific research, focusing on students' accounts of effective teaching, has found that there is no empirical basis for the claims that male teachers or rather that the gender of the teacher per se is a factor that enhances students' learning or motivation in school (see Lahelma 2000;Lingard et al 2002).…”