Private Practices: Girls Reading Fiction and Constructing Identity

ISBN-13: 9780748402250 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 242 str.

Meredith Rogers Cherland; M. Cherland; Cherla Meredith

Opis

The study of literacy no longer focuses solely on psychological processes. In the past, literacy has been reconceptualized as a social practice, or rather as social practices which make up daily life. Private Practices examines the broad fictional reading of middle class pre-teen girls in ethnographic detail, and describes the place of literacy, both at home and at school, in the construction of gender.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 A Constructed World; Chapter 2 Gender Practices: The Cultural Reproduction of Gender in Oak Town; Chapter 3 Literacy Practices: The Reproduction of Gendered Reading; Chapter 4 Instructional Practices: Gender and Reading at School; Chapter 5 Identity Practices: Reading Fiction and Constructing a Gendered Subjectivity; Chapter 6 Private Lessons;

O autorze

Meredith Rogers Cherland is a former elementary school teacher in United States and Canada, and is an associate professor of literacy education at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.