Stories of Men and Teaching A New Narrative Approach to Understandin

This book investigates the dynamic relationship between masculinity, fiction and teaching answering one central question. How are male teachers influenced by fictional narratives in the construction of masculinities within education? It achieves this in t

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Ian Davis

Stories of Men and Teaching A New Narrative Approach to Understanding Masculinity and Education 123

SpringerBriefs in Education

To find out more about Teaching Men visit the website at http://www.teachingmen. com.au More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8914

Ian Davis

Stories of Men and Teaching A New Narrative Approach to Understanding Masculinity and Education

123

Ian Davis Griffith Institute of Educational Research Mt. Gravatt, QLD Australia

ISSN 2211-1921 ISBN 978-981-287-217-3 DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-218-0

ISSN 2211-193X (electronic) ISBN 978-981-287-218-0 (eBook)

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Preface

Stories of Men and Teaching is based on a three year research project known as the Teaching Men project. Teaching Men was devised to investigate the dynamic relationship between masculinity, fiction and teaching in the service of one central question; how are male teachers influenced by fictional narratives in the construction of masculinities within education? The Teaching Men project explored this question in three distinct ways. Firstly, by describing a methodological