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Gonick, Marnina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
This paper investigates changing modes of femininity. It asks: What are the discourses and discursive practices within which new femininities are constructed? What are the social conditions in which they emerge? How are these negotiated and lived by girls? What do these stories tell us about the complications of subject formation and what it means…
Descriptors: Femininity, Social Change, Human Geography, Social Environment
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Brady, Patrick – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
The adolescent peer group constitutes a vital component of the institutional culture of the contemporary secondary school. Formed among students and reinforced by administrators and teachers, it takes the form of a structured status hierarchy whose membership and boundaries are clearly understood within the school community. Individual students'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Student Subcultures