Culture Shock [microform] : Men's and Women's Myths of Literacy in Academe / Shirley K Rose
- Bib ID:
- 5474280
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Rose, Shirley K
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED277043
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 21 p.
- Summary:
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A study of over 200 personal narratives, in which college freshman writers related their experiences of achieving literacy, offered insights into cultural differences in attitudes toward literacy. The activity of becoming literate was fundamentally the same for males and females, but the myths they used to understand and explain their experiences at each stage of the process were different. Males' experiences reinforced a myth of literacy for autonomy and females' experiences reinforced a myth of literacy for participation. In analyzing the personal narratives, it became clear that the gender of the reader was as significant as the gender of the writer. An experiment with graduate student teachers indicated that when a female read the narratives, it was more likely to be scored high if it was representative of the autonomy myth and if she had attributed it to a male. When a male read the narratives, he assigned higher scores to narratives he attributed to women, but showed only a slight preference for the narratives that fit the female participation myth paradigm. Experience may have taught women, both as writers and readers, that identification with male values and traits will enhance their chances for academic success. Students of both sexes need to be taught to balance the demands of both participation and autonomy. (SRT)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (76th, San Antonio, TX, November 21-26, 1986).
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- 1986
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