ABSTRACT

Public debates in Finland on the unwillingness of boys to learning literacy have called for masculine role models to promote reading. This article analyses a privately funded project where two adult males lead a series of gangsta rap workshops during the Finnish language and communication lessons. The workshops were aimed at students in male-dominated fields in vocational education and training (VET). From a methodological perspective, this study contributes to the field of feminist ethnography, and the article draws from sociolinguistic research on swearing. The analysis demonstrates how the workshop leaders profile the students as ‘laddish’, which justifies the leaders’ swearing and thus creates an affiliation to working-class, anti-school masculinities. The article concludes by reformulating the concept of antipedagogy that intersects the ‘failing boys’ discourse with neoliberal mentalities of education. This involves a necessity for leaders to please by performing ‘laddism’ and drawing distinctions within the educational context.

摘要

芬兰有关男孩不愿学习识字的公开辩论呼吁建立男性榜样，以促进阅读。本文分析了一个私人资助的项目，该项目由两名成年男性在芬兰语言和交流课程中领导一系列黑帮说唱研讨会。讲习班的对象是职业教育和培训（VET）中男性占主导地位的领域的学生。从方法论的角度来看，这项研究对女权民族志学领域做出了贡献，并且这篇文章是从对骂人的社会语言学研究中得出的。分析表明，讲习班领导者如何将学生形容为“过时的人”，这证明了领导者的咒骂是正当的，并因此与工人阶级的反学校男性气质建立了联系。本文最后通过重新阐述反教学法的概念与“失败男孩”的论述与新自由主义的教育思想相交。这要求领导者有必要通过在教育环境中表现出“小伙子”并区别对待来取悦他人。