Gender Meanings in Grade Eight Students' Talk about Classroom Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12231291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samiha S Peterson (0000-0001-6985-5603, corresponding author), Shelley Peterson |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 351-366 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0954025022000020081a |
| OpenAlex | W1992325947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This study examined the ways in which gender influences students' choices in their classroom writing. Data sources included the students' writing, small group conversations, classroom observations, and interviews with teachers. For the most part, students attempted to maintain a widely recognized gender order in their talk about girls' and boys' writing. The students' writing choices were constrained or extended by the range of discourses available to construct their gender and literate identities. The boys generally positioned themselves within powerful hegemonic masculine discourses. Some boys, however, wrote about relationships between male friends within competitive environments. Taking up the more powerful masculine discourses, some girls wrote about personal experiences playing team sports. Students made one boy aware that he had positioned himself as incompetent within the social order when he wrote about a gay character
Character (mathematics · Construct (python library · Hegemonic masculinity · Human sexuality · Masculinity · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sexual identity · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology · Writing and Handwriting Education
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |