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Howell, Beth – Gender and Education, 2008
The aim of the research project was to explore new ways in which we might evaluate boys' and girls' engagement and "performance" in English at Key Stage 3. This paper draws on recent theories regarding literacy, identity and gender and includes an analysis of short stories written by boys and girls aged 12- to 13-years-old. An…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Gender Issues, Creative Writing, Cultural Literacy
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Millard, Elaine – Gender and Education, 2005
This paper describes a small-scale writing project in which a class of KS 2 primary pupils were invited to import their own narrative interests into a task designed by their teacher and the researcher within the constraints of the National Literacy Strategy. By employing an adventure genre, based on problem and puzzle solving, pupils were…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Literacy