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ERIC Number: EJ811299
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Jun
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1745-7823
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Beyond Stereotypes? Talking about Gender in School Booktalk
Barajas, Katarina Eriksson
Ethnography and Education, v3 n2 p129-144 Jun 2008
The Swedish educational system states that work in schools should depict and mediate equality. One way of achieving this is through fiction, which according to the syllabus provides students with knowledge about the living conditions of women and men during different epochs and places. The present paper examines gender in a Swedish school, analysing "book club" discussions, using a discursive approach. The data consist of video-recorded teacher-led booktalk sessions, involving small groups of pupils in grades 4-7. It was found that the teachers and/or the pupils invoked gender issues in all book club sessions. The fictive events were, at times, discussed in gender-stereotyped ways. Yet, the teachers and pupils also transcended gender stereotypes in several cases. In many of those cases, there was a generational pattern, in that the participants tended to apply less stereotyped thinking when talking about fictive characters of their own age. (Contains 6 excerpts and 5 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 4; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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