Laura Scholes

Boys, Masculinities and Reading

Gender Identity and Literacy as Social Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

Boys, Masculinities and Reading explores elementary students' interpretations of their experiences of reading and the contextual influences that impact those experiences. Examining the perceived, generalized "crisis" of boys' underperformance in reading and literacy, Scholes identifies the factors that shape perceptions of masculinity a

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367884758
• ISBN-10: 0367884755
• Artikelnr.: 58483460

Autorenporträt

Laura Scholes is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Multiple Masculinities: Perspectives on Gender 3.
Literacy as Social Practice: Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions of
Reading 4. Ecological Perspectives: Masculinities and Reading as Ecological
Metaphors 5. Diversity and Difference in the Classroom: Six Clusters of
Students 6. I Really Love Reading! The Dream Team and Archetypal Commoners
7. Reading is for Nerds! The Bored and Banal and The Low Riders 8. Hide
that Book! The Clandestine Readers and The Outsiders 9. Real World
Influences on Literate Practices: Enabling and Constraining Domains of
Experience 10. Boys (and girls) in the Literacy Classroom: Moving Forward
Appendix A: Survey Instrument Appendix B: Interview Schedule