Literacy and Gender

Literacy and Gender

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Why are girls outperforming boys in literacy skills in the Western education system today? To date, there have been few attempts to answer this question. Literacy and Gender sets out to redress this state of affairs by re-examining the social organization of literacy in primary schools. In studying schooling as a social process, this book focuses on the links between literacy, gender and attainment, the role school plays in producing social difference and the changing pattern of interest in this topic both within the feminist community and beyond. Gemma Moss argues that the reason for girlsa relative success in literacy lies in the structure of schooling and in particular the role the reading curriculum plays in constructing a hierarchy of learners in class. Using fine-grained ethnographic analysis of reading in context, this book outlines methods for researching literacy as a social practice and understanding how different versions of what counts as literacy can be created in the same site.class not as the prelude to some other task, such as answering comprehension questions or writing a story, but as an end in itself. The extract from ... Terencea#39;s looking through books right in the corner a takes picture book and flicks through. Does this ... 3.00 Inbook corner and aroundthe classroom: two football texts shared between fourboys, plus onefootball text with one boy. ... STORY TIME, CARPET Teacher hasbook on lap: RoaldDahl, [ChrisPowling (1997) Evans Profiles Series].

Title:Literacy and Gender
Author: Gemma Moss
Publisher:Routledge - 2007-10-29



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