Should we rethink the education of boys?
Young boys practice traditional wrestling in a street in Kaolack, Senegal.
Per-Anders Pettersson / gettyimages.fr
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
2 min
The issue of educating boys has long been neglected.
What mattered was that of the girls who had to be taught to fight against stereotypes.
But today, boys are more often punished at school and failing at school.
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So how do you educate boys?
How to free them from an obsolete virile ideal, to make them responsible and courageous citizens?
With
:
Christine Castelain Meunier, sociologist at the
CNRS
, author of
And if we reinvented the education of boys
- a small manual to overcome stereotypes and raise free and happy boys
(Nathan 2020) and
Men also come from Venus
- strong and sensitive the new faces of virility
(Larousse 2020).
And a report by
Charlie Dupiot
To be a boy, to become a man, to appear manly ... what does it all mean?
Charlie Dupiot asked these questions to 4 children: Miles, 12 years old ... and first, a sibling: Solal, 9 years old, and her big sisters, Malia, 15 years old, and Lilou 17 years old.
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