Mucking Around in Class

Martino [pictured here] mucks around, in this study:

“Mucking Around in Class, Giving Crap, and Acting Cool: Adolescent Boys Enacting Masculinities at School,” Wayne Martino, Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l’éducation, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2000), pp. 102-112. The author, at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, explains:

“I use a Foucauldian approach to examine how different versions of masculinity affect boys at one school, focusing specifically on mucking around in class and how boys learn to relate in peer group cultures.”