Missing Stories, Missing Lives [microform] : Urban Girls (Re)Constructing Race and Gender in the Literacy Classroom / Gina L. DeBlase
- Bib ID:
- 5670369
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- DeBlase, Gina L
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED441894
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2000
- 9 p.
- Summary:
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This study examined the ways in which eighth grade girls in an urban middle school constructed social identities through their experiences with literary texts. It focused on what sociocultural representations about female identity and gendered expectations emerged in the transactions in the literacy events these girls experienced in English class. It also examined what meanings girls made from these gendered representations and how girls from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds took up and/or resisted the messages. Finally, the study investigated how the girls' transactions with literacy events in English class linked to their perceptions, insights, and understandings of the larger social order. Data were collected via observations, interviews with students and teachers, and collection of classroom artifacts. The seven study findings focused on ideologies of control, power, and cultural uniformity; new criticism and unexamined standpoints of social identity; constructing literature as removed from the lived social experience of girls' lives; silencing, sameness, and missed opportunities for dialogue; girls' lived experiences influencing their transactions with literature; literacy as a tool for socializing girls into culturally mainstream society; and fractured identities and colliding ideologies. Four implications for pedagogy and teacher education are listed. (SM)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 24-28, 2000).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- ERIC
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Publication date:
- 2000
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