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Diversity in Literary Response: Revisiting Gender Expectations
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Brendler, Beth M. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
Drawing on and reexamining theories on gender and literacy, derived from research performed between 1974 and 2002, this qualitative study explored the gender assumptions and expectations of Language Arts teachers in a graduate level adolescent literature course at a university in the Midwestern United States. The theoretical framework was…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Expectation, Language Arts, Teacher Attitudes
The Social Context of Reference Work: Assessing the Effects of Gender and Communication Skill on Observers' Judgments of Competence.
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Harris, Roma M.; Michell, B. Gillian – Library and Information Science Research, 1986
Public library users made judgments about the competence of reference librarians whom they observed in videotaped interviews. Two social factors were varied in the interviews: the gender of the librarian, patron, and observers; and the communication behavior exhibited by the reference librarian toward the patron. Nineteen references are cited.…
Descriptors: Competence, Interpersonal Communication, Librarians, Library Services
Femininity and the Librarian--Another Test.
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Turner, Robert L., Jr. – College and Research Libraries, 1980
No significant differences were found between the Bem Sex-Role Inventory scores of library science students enrolled at a large university in the western United States and those of a normative group provided by the author of the inventory. (Author)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Correlation, Femininity, Graduate Students