Boys, literacies, and schooling : the dangerous territories of gender-based literacy reform / Leonie Rowan [and others]
"Current debates about boys and schooling in many Western nations are increasingly characterized by a sense of crisis as government reports, academic research and the day to day experiences of teachers combine to indicate that: boys are consistently underperforming in literacy; boys are continu...
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| Language: | English |
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Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia :
Open University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Educating boys, learning gender.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction--Dangerous places: debates about boys, girls, schooling and gender-based literacy reform
- What about the boys? The rhetoric and realities of the new gender crisis
- How, who, where, when, why and what way? Mindsets on gender reform in schools
- Some really useful theoretical company for transforming and transformative literacy education
- Mindsets matter: an overview of major literacy worldviews
- Making it not so: transformative literacy practices for girls and boys
- Exorcizing digital demons: information technology, new literacies and the de/reconstruction of gendered subjectivities
- From Pacman to Pokemon: cross-generational perspectives on gender and reform in a 'post-feminist' age.