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Young men growing up in today’s world are facing an identity crisis, warns Gale Macleod. In an age when masculinity is increasingly coming under attack, she says, schools need to reassure boys that they don’t share a collective guilt for all the wrongs suffered by women and disadvantaged groups over the centuries

It isn’t easy for time-pressed teachers to sift through mountains of hard-to-digest research, says Gale Macleod

If we really want to resolve the issue of problematic behaviour in schools, we need to understand the root causes, argues Gale Macleod. Teachers are inclined to put bad behaviour down to factors outside of school, she says, but maybe they need to ask whether they are doing enough to ensure that all pupils feel like they belong in their classrooms