1st Edition
Private Practices Girls Reading Fiction And Constructing Identity
By Meredith Cherland University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Copyright 1994
261 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
261 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
261 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
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First Published in 1994. The study of literacy no longer focuses solely on psychological processes. In the past ten years, literacy has been reconceptualized as a social practice, or rather as social practices that make up the fabric of daily life. Using an anthropological perspective, Private Practices examines the broad fictional reading of middle-class pre-teen girls, and offers fresh insights... Read more
Chapter 1 A Constructed World; Chapter 2 Gender Practices: The Cultural Reproduction of Gender in Oak Town; Chapter 3 Literacy Practices: The Reproduction of Gendered Reading; Chapter 4 Instructional Practices: Gender and Reading at School; Chapter 5 Identity Practices: Reading Fiction and Constructing a Gendered Subjectivity; Chapter 6 Private Lessons;
Biography
Meredith Rogers Cherland is a former elementary school teacher in United States and Canada, and is an associate professor of literacy education at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.
