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Schillinger, Trace – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
In 2006, a secondary English and feminist studies teacher created a course and designed a study around a reading exchange for eighth-grade girls from two vastly different communities. Girls from a school in a northeastern state read young adult novels and wrote about their reading and related topics with girls from Washington, DC on a wikispace…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Background, Differences
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Levstik, Linda S.; Groth, Jeanette – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2002
The study reported here provides an example of the complex interface among historical study, current issues, and adolescents' complex social worlds. The authors investigated the ways in which a group of eighth grade students conceptualize the significance of gender in the context of a study of antebellum U.S. history. Fifty students participated…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Sexuality