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About this book
This work offers parents, educators, and librarians a practical guide to discovering the ways gender identities are constructed through literacy practices, providing recommendations for addressing gender inequities in schools and in the community at large.
Gender and Literacy: A Handbook for Educators and Parents focuses on issues related to the gendered experience of students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12, promoting an understanding that the issues surrounding gender cannot be reduced to broad generalizations. Author Karen A. Krasny seeks to make clear the complex notion of gender construction within the context of redefining what constitutes legitimate literacy practices in schools.
This handbook will help to guide educators, parents, and librarians by assisting them in the selection and evaluation of print and media resources. The first chapter explains the need to understand the complex relationship between gender and literacy. The bulk of the book provides readers with a critical review of the studies conducted to investigate gendered literacy practices, while the last three chapters focus on actionable strategies and policy making.
Gender and Literacy: A Handbook for Educators and Parents focuses on issues related to the gendered experience of students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12, promoting an understanding that the issues surrounding gender cannot be reduced to broad generalizations. Author Karen A. Krasny seeks to make clear the complex notion of gender construction within the context of redefining what constitutes legitimate literacy practices in schools.
This handbook will help to guide educators, parents, and librarians by assisting them in the selection and evaluation of print and media resources. The first chapter explains the need to understand the complex relationship between gender and literacy. The bulk of the book provides readers with a critical review of the studies conducted to investigate gendered literacy practices, while the last three chapters focus on actionable strategies and policy making.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Foreword by Tom Bean
- Foreword by Didi Khayatt
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Why a Handbook on Gender and Literacy?
- 2. Taking a Critical Approach to Interpreting the Research and Literature on Gender and Literacy
- 3. International and National Literacy Assessments
- 4. Researching Gendered Discourse Practices
- 5. Researching Gender and Reading
- 6. Reading Gender in Children's and Adolescent Literature
- 7. Policy, Practice, and Research: How Schools and Communities Take Action
- 8. Taking Action in the Classroom
- 9. Gender Literacy: Some Parting Thoughts
- Literature and Media Cited
- Appendix A: Anticipation Guide
- Appendix B: Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) and Directed Listening Thinking Activity (DLTA)
- Appendix C: Female and Male Archetypes
- References
- Index