Over on his Filling the Pail (recommended), Greg Ashman posted 11 January 2024 “Are calls to address Australia’s classroom behaviour crisis somehow about gender? The Dudely Gospel.” The content could be considered a Venn diagram of not just the five topics I’ve listed in the subtitle to the present message, but more! In his post Mr.-Dr.-Prof. Ashman provided an analysis of arguments advanced by Melanie Ralph regarding classroom management.
Here’s part of his lede (links removed; see the original for embedded URIs):
If all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail. I don’t know whether Melanie Ralph is able to look through lenses other than gender, but she’s been hammering a few things that are not nails. Take, for example, her theory that the kind of classroom management strategies advocated by Tom Bennett are masculine — a ‘Dudely Gospel’ indeed — and her repeated references to Katharine Birbalsingh, a woman who runs a successful school in London, as an example of this approach. Is Bribalsingh being ‘Dudely’?
Ralph is a public school English and Drama teacher from Brisbane who has worked in a range of independent and public schools in Canada and Australia. She is also a sessional lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and sells Character Maps for classic works of literature on Teachers Pay Teachers. Ralph’s aim for her writing is to, “challenge troubling trends in education that tarnish the professionalism of teachers.” Which is a good thing.
Thereafter, Mr. Ashman devoted paragraphs to explaining why he’s “not sure she has identified” a “troubling trend” in education. It’s a substantial take down that touches on all the items in the catalog in my subtitle…and then some additional topics, too.
Jump over to “Are calls to address Australia’s classroom behaviour crisis somehow about gender?” and peruse Mr. Ashman’s post. If readers of Special Education Today think about those topics, I think they’ll find Mr. Ashman’s thoughts worth reading.
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