1st Edition

Gender Literacy & Curriculum

By Alison Lee Copyright 1996
256 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

256 Pages
by Taylor & Francis

First Published in 1996. Gender, Literacy, Curriculum is a major contribution to research and theory in literacy and curriculum studies. Alison Lee looks at how the texts and discourses of schooling construct 'geography' as a curriculum field, and how this construction is tied closely with students' gendered identities and practices in the classroom. She brings together discourse analyses of... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender, Literacy and Schooling; Part I Reading the Con-texts; Chapter 2 Maps and Chaps: Reading the Curriculum; Chapter 3 Reading the Classroom Dynamics; Part II Reading the Texts; Chapter 4 Two Essays on Shifting Cultivation; Chapter 5 Dangerous Matters: Gendering the Differences; Part III Reading the Meta-texts; Chapter 6 Reading School Geography: A Critique of Recent Work in Educational Linguistics; Chapter 7 Toward a Feminist Politics of Literacy and Curriculum;

Biography

Lee, Alison