Laura Scholes is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

• 1. Introduction 2. Multiple Masculinities: Perspectives on Gender 3. Literacy as Social Practice: Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions of Reading 4. Ecological Perspectives: Masculinities and Reading as Ecological Metaphors 5. Diversity and Difference in the Classroom: Six Clusters of Students 6. I Really Love Reading! The Dream Team and Archetypal Commoners 7. Reading is for Nerds! The Bored and Banal and The Low Riders 8. Hide that Book! The Clandestine Readers and The Outsiders 9. Real World Influences on Literate Practices: Enabling and Constraining Domains of Experience 10. Boys (and girls) in the Literacy Classroom: Moving Forward Appendix A: Survey Instrument Appendix B: Interview Schedule

Laura Scholes is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

• 1. Introduction 2. Multiple Masculinities: Perspectives on Gender 3. Literacy as Social Practice: Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions of Reading 4. Ecological Perspectives: Masculinities and Reading as Ecological Metaphors 5. Diversity and Difference in the Classroom: Six Clusters of Students 6. I Really Love Reading! The Dream Team and Archetypal Commoners 7. Reading is for Nerds! The Bored and Banal and The Low Riders 8. Hide that Book! The Clandestine Readers and The Outsiders 9. Real World Influences on Literate Practices: Enabling and Constraining Domains of Experience 10. Boys (and girls) in the Literacy Classroom: Moving Forward Appendix A: Survey Instrument Appendix B: Interview Schedule

Laura Scholes is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

• 1. Introduction 2. Multiple Masculinities: Perspectives on Gender 3. Literacy as Social Practice: Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions of Reading 4. Ecological Perspectives: Masculinities and Reading as Ecological Metaphors 5. Diversity and Difference in the Classroom: Six Clusters of Students 6. I Really Love Reading! The Dream Team and Archetypal Commoners 7. Reading is for Nerds! The Bored and Banal and The Low Riders 8. Hide that Book! The Clandestine Readers and The Outsiders 9. Real World Influences on Literate Practices: Enabling and Constraining Domains of Experience 10. Boys (and girls) in the Literacy Classroom: Moving Forward Appendix A: Survey Instrument Appendix B: Interview Schedule