ABSTRACT

First Published in 1996. Making important links between poststructuralism, feminism and linguistics, this text explores the relationship between school writing and student learning.

chapter 1|33 pages

Introduction

Gender, Literacy and Schooling

part I|65 pages

Reading the Con-texts

chapter 2|34 pages

Maps and Chaps

Reading the Curriculum

chapter 3|29 pages

Reading the Classroom Dynamics

part II|73 pages

Reading the Texts

chapter 4|43 pages

Two Essays on Shifting Cultivation

chapter 5|28 pages

Dangerous Matters

Gendering the Differences

part III|54 pages

Reading the Meta-texts

chapter 6|28 pages

Reading School Geography

A Critique of Recent Work in Educational Linguistics