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Reading girls : the lives and literacies of adolescents
Author
Title
Reading girls : the lives and literacies of adolescents / Hadar Dubowsky Ma'ayan ; Foreword by Margaret Finders.
ISBN
9780807753149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807753149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807753156 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0807753157 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Teachers College Press, [2012]
Physical Description
xiii, 146 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
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
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 11, 2012
Series
Language and literacy series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-136) and index.
Contents
Lincoln Middle School and the Girls Literacy Discussion Group
Understanding girls and literacies
Using texts to perform race and class identities
Critical media literacy for a text-saturated world
Girls, texts, and sexualities
reading violence in their worlds
Technology and creativity: how multiple literacies can build educational resiliency
Multiple literacies and a failing student
Girls and the achievement gap.
Subjects
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