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From ‘Villains’ to ‘Victims’
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- Title: From ‘Villains’ to ‘Victims’: Tracing Changes in the Discursive Construction of Boys
- Author(s): Melissa Spencer
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: The Learner
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review
- Volume: 8
- Issue: 1
- Date: December 16, 2004
- ISSN: 1447-9494 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9540 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v08/47987
- Citation: Spencer, Melissa. 2004. "From ‘Villains’ to ‘Victims’: Tracing Changes in the Discursive Construction of Boys." The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 8 (1): 0-0. doi:10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v08/47987.
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Abstract
Argues that the under-achieving boy is the contemporary variation of the 'larrikin' and neither discursive construction of boys can be understood in isolation from the social, economic and political contexts within which they emerge.
