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Pietilä, Penni; Tainio, Liisa; Lappalainen, Sirpa; Lahelma, Elina – Gender and Education, 2021
Public debates in Finland on the unwillingness of boys to learning literacy have called for masculine role models to promote reading. This article analyses a privately funded project where two adult males lead a series of gangsta rap workshops during the Finnish language and communication lessons. The workshops were aimed at students in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Teaching Methods, Workshops, Music
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Þrastardóttir, Bergljót; Jóhannesson, Ingólfur Ásgeir; Lappalainen, Sirpa – Ethnography and Education, 2021
This article focuses on how students make use of different spaces in one compulsory school in Iceland and how gender is produced through activities in these spaces. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted for three months in 2016 among 8th and 9th graders at one public school in Iceland. Our analysis is based on poststructural and material…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Ethnography, Grade 8, Grade 9