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Hamston, Julie; Love, Kristina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
This article describes a theoretically informed methodology for eliciting the voices of adolescent boys identified by their teachers and parents as reluctant leisure time readers. Similar methods have also been used to draw out the voices of the boys' parents to understand their efforts to guide and maintain their sons' literacy practices, within…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Males, Teaching Methods, Grade 6
Smith, Sally A. – 1997
A study examined critical literacy and how texts, transactions, and talk enabled girls to examine their positions as readers and negotiate their identities in relation to novel characters and one another. Participants were eight sixth-grade girls of European American, African American, and Latina backgrounds and the participant researcher, a white…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Black Students, Early Adolescents, Females
Fitzgibbons, Shirley A. – 1997
A longitudinal study of student reading attitudes was conducted in 30 schools (20 elementary, 10 middle) using the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey instrument (ERAS). The instrument tested attitudes toward both recreational reading and academic/school reading as part of the Reading Excitement and Paperbacks Project (REAP). REAP participant…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Instructional Program Divisions, Junior High Schools
Kohn, Alfie – 1998
This book presents a collection of essays that suggest how to improve the education system in the United States. There are 19 chapters in 5 parts. Part 1, "Classroom Management," includes: (1) "The Limits of Teaching Skills"; (2) "The Trouble with School Uniforms"; (3) "Beyond Discipline"; and (4) "How…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Attention Deficit Disorders, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
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