Do Parenting Advice Books Help or Harm? Critiquing 'Common-Sense' Advice for Mothers Raising Boys

Autor/inn/en	Sandretto, Susan; Nairn, Karen
Titel	Do Parenting Advice Books Help or Harm? Critiquing 'Common-Sense' Advice for Mothers Raising Boys
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 31 (2019) 3, S.327-343 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sandretto, Susan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2018.1533919
Schlagwörter	Parent Education; Parent Child Relationship; Child Rearing; Males; Mothers; Foreign Countries; Discourse Analysis; Educational Policy; Rhetoric; Masculinity; Books; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kindererziehung; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Mother; Mutter; Ausland; Diskursanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Rhetorik; Männlichkeit; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Neuseeland
Abstract	Educationalists lament the resilience of the so-called 'boy crisis', despite research that demonstrates only some boys are in crisis, as well as some girls. The boy crisis in New Zealand shows no sign of abating, partly due to popular rhetorical literature in the form of parenting advice books. In particular, authors Celia Lashlie and Nigel Latta have garnered a strong following among parents and educators. In this article we argue their texts not only continue to inflame the boy crisis, they are harmful in the ways they inform narrow 'de facto' education policies and practices focused on boys. Our analysis of "He'll be ok" and "Mothers raising sons" found each author privileged particular combinations of classic rhetorical strategies with discourses of essentialist masculinity and mother blame to position their parenting advice as common sense. Our critique highlights the vital importance of examining intersections between parenting advice books and education. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01