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Clarke, Lane W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2007
An analysis of what appears initially to be a typical literature circle discussion about the book "Shiloh" illuminates larger issues of the influence of class and gendered discursive practices. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, the author suggests that the ways these fifth-grade students enact class and gender roles actually positions them…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Teacher Role, Classroom Environment, Discourse Analysis
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Zacher, Jessica C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2008
In this article I use a double theoretical lens of Bourdieuian (1985, 1991) and Bakhtinian (1981, 1986) perspectives on social space and the dialogism of everyday literacy events to analyze and discuss a classroom literacy event. In this event, which takes place in a diversely populated classroom with a social justice language arts curriculum,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Literacy Education, Males, Student Diversity