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Reading girls : the lives and literacies of adolescents /

The author--an experienced researcher and middle school teacher--intertwines investigations of multiple literacies, technologies, race, class, gender, sexuality, and gender expression to provide a provocative look at what helps and what hurts adolescent girls in school.--From publisher description.

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Varying form of title:Readin girls : the lives and literacies of adolescents.
Author / Creator: Ma'ayan, Hadar Dubowsky
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Teachers College Press, [2012]
Series:Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Adolescence.
Literacy > Social aspects.
Junior high school girls > Attitudes.
Educational sociology.
Junior high school girls.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Lincoln Middle School and the Girls Literacy Discussion Group
  • Lincoln Middle School
  • The Girls Literacy Discussion Group
  • 2. Understanding Girls and Literacies
  • Multiple Literacies
  • Critical Literacy
  • Understanding Girls and Adolescence
  • Middle School Girls and Literacies
  • 3. Using Texts to Perform Race and Class Identities
  • Body as Text
  • Implications and Recommendations
  • 4. Critical Media Literacy for a Text-Saturated World
  • Teen Magazines and Gender Expression
  • Mass Media and Critical Literacy
  • Implications and Recommendations
  • 5. Girls, Texts, and Sexualities
  • School and Church Texts
  • Peer Text
  • Mother Text
  • Texts that Police and Monitor Girls' Behavior and Clothes
  • Implications and Recommendations
  • 6. Reading Violence in Their Worlds
  • Violence as a Text
  • Implications and Recommendations
  • 7. Technology and Creativity: How Multiple Literacies Can Build Educational Resiliency
  • Using the Internet as a Literacy Practice that Builds Resiliency
  • Using Multiple Literacies to Create Their Own Texts
  • Implications and Recommendations
  • 8. Multiple Literacies and a Failing Student
  • Erika's Literacy Practices
  • Erika's Voice
  • Implications and Recommendations
  • 9. Girls and the Achievement Gap
  • On Teen Pregnancy
  • Narratives of the Future
  • Girls and the Achievement Gap
  • Implications and Recommendations
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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