Private Practices: Girls Reading Fiction and Constructing Identity

ISBN-13: 9780748402267 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 242 str.

Meredith Rogers Cherland

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. cultural and social construction, not a biological given. Gender is something people create whilst interacting with each other in all activities of their daily lives, including their literacy activities. The text also provides critical analysis and commentary concerning the role that reading fiction plays in cultural reproduction. In the hope that deeper knowledge of literacy as social practice will support social transformation and eventually social justice, the book suggests reasons for the fact that girls read more fiction and different fiction than boys. that imply more egalitarian values, highlighting the importance of using a cultural lens to create useful perspectives on the problems surrounding literacy and social equality in the 1990S.

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.