Description |
xiii, 146 pages ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Language and literacy series |
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Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
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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. |
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. |
Subject |
Adolescence.
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Literacy -- Social aspects.
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Junior high school girls -- Attitudes.
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Educational sociology.
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Cover Title |
Readin girls : the lives and literacies of adolescents |
ISBN |
9780807753149 paperback alkaline paper |
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0807753149 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780807753156 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0807753157 hardcover alkaline paper |
Standard No. |
7366336 |
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