Literacy and Gender.pdf

LITERACY AND GENDER:

RESEARCHING TEXTS, CONTEXTS

AND READERS

‘In the context of continuing debates about how to teach reading, and

about boys’ underachievement, Gemma Moss brings us right up close to

what children are actually doing with books in classrooms. Her ethno-

graphic research is meticulous and fine-grained, and she presents some

striking findings about how the dynamics between literacy, gender and

attainment are configured within particular schools and classrooms. This

accessible, subtle book raises important questions for current policy makers

and is recommended reading for anyone who cares about children, literacy

and education.’

Janet Maybin, The Open University , UK

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 organisation 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 produc-

ing social differences and the changing pattern of interest in this topic

both within the feminist community and beyond. Gemma Moss argues that

the reason for girls’ relative success in literacy lies in the structure of

schooling and, in particular, the role the reading curriculum plays in con-

structing 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.

Literacy and Gender makes a valuable contribution to current debates

about literacy pedagogy and outlines a principled basis upon which to

review the literacy curriculum in action.

Gemma Moss is Reader in Education at the Institute of Education,

University of London.

LITERACIES

Series Editor: David Barton

Lancaster University

Literacy practices are changing rapidly in contemporary society in

response to broad social, economic and technological changes: in educa-

tion, the workplace, the media and in everyday life. This series reflects the

burgeoning research and scholarship in the field of literacy studies and its

increasingly interdisciplinary nature. The series aims to provide a home for

books on reading and writing which consider literacy as a social practice

and which situate it within broader institutional contexts. The books

develop and draw together work in the field; they aim to be accessible,

interdisciplinary and international in scope, and to cover a wide range of

social and institutional contexts.

HIPHOP LITERACIES

Elaine Richardson

CITY LITERACIES

Learning to Read Across Generations and Cultures

Eve Gregory and Ann Williams

LITERACY AND DEVELOPMENT

Ethnographic Perspectives

Edited by Brian V. Street

SITUATED LITERACIES

Theorising Reading and Writing in Context

Edited by David Barton, Mary Hamilton and Roz Ivanic

MULTILITERACIES

Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures

Edited by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

GLOBAL LITERACIES AND THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

Edited by Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe

STUDENT WRITING

Access, Regulation, Desire

Theresa M. Lillis

SILICON LITERACIES

Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age

Edited by Ilana Snyder

AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERACIES

Elaine Richardson

LITERACY IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE

Gunther Kress

Editorial Board:

Elsa Auerbach Boston University

Roz Ivanic Lancaster University

Mike Baynham University of Leeds

Gunther Kress University of London

David Bloome Vanderbilt University

Jane Mace Southbank University

Norman Fairclough Lancaster University

Janet Maybin The Open University

James Gee University of Wisconsin

Greg Myers Lancaster University

Nigel Hall Manchester Metropolitan

Mastin Prinsloo University of Cape Town

University

Brian Street University of London

Mary Hamilton Lancaster University

Michael Stubbs University of Trier

Peter Hannon Sheffield University

Denny Taylor Hofstra University

Shirley Brice Heath Stanford University

Daniel Wagner University of Pennsylvania

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