Reading girls : the lives and literacies of adolescents / Hadar Dubowsky Ma'ayan ; Foreword by Margaret Finders.

Author/creator Ma'ayan, Hadar Dubowsky
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Teachers College Press, [2012]
Descriptionxiii, 146 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLanguage and literacy series
Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.) ^A258785
Contents Lincoln Middle School and the Girls Literacy Discussion Group -- Understanding girls and literacies -- Using texts to perform race and class identities -- Critical media literacy for a text-saturated world -- Girls, texts, and sexualities -- reading violence in their worlds -- Technology and creativity: how multiple literacies can build educational resiliency -- Multiple literacies and a failing student -- Girls and the achievement gap.
Abstract The author--an experienced researcher and middle school teacher--intertwines investigations of multiple literacies, technologies, race, class, gender, sexuality, and gender expression to provide a provocative look at what helps and what hurts adolescent girls in school. --from publisher description
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 125-136) and index.
LCCN 2011045485
ISBN9780807753149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807753149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807753156 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0807753157 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks LB1135 .M27 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold