1st Edition

Gender Literacy & Curriculum

By Alison Lee Copyright 1996
    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 research texts, textbooks, classroom talk, students' and teachers' accounts, with a detailed linguistic analysis of students' written work. This title is of particular interest to those working in literacy education and curriculum, discourse analysis and applied linguistics, feminisms and critical pedagogies.

    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