Boys, Girls, and the Myths of Literacies and Learning
Roberta F Hammett editor Kathy Sanford editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canadian Scholars
Published:30th Mar '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This timely and authoritative book provides a critique and deconstructs the myths that serve to uphold the current ""moral panic"" around boys' supposed failures in literacy and diminished chances of success. Readers are asked to look beyond simple gender binarism to see different, more complex and often more egregious categorizations of students in their classrooms, other than the simplistic male/female categories, and begin to question and address some of those issues: poverty, racism, violence, environment, and more complex issues of gender, patriarchy, and hegemony.
The authors suggest different ways of teaching literacies to both boys and girls and propose that while solutions are not simple, they are critically important in promoting positive educational experiences for all students, regardless of gender, class, culture, race, or sexual orientation.
The book addresses important questions of gendered literacies and effectively critiques essentialist and binary views on literacy and gender. The authors in the book are representative of the more influential researchers working in gender and literacy today. This is a valuable resource for teacher education literacy courses and for graduate courses in curriculum, English language arts, gender, feminist and masculine studies."" - Ingrid Johnston, Professor of English Education, Department of Secondary Education, and Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
ISBN: 9781551303444
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 360g
252 pages