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She say, he say : urban girls write their lives / by Brett Elizabeth Blake.
LIBRA LB1576 B496 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blake, Brett Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States--Case studies.
- English language.
- Women--Education (Elementary)--United States--Case studies.
- Women.
- Education, Urban--United States--Case studies.
- Education, Urban.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Children with social disabilities--Education (Elementary).
- Women--Education (Elementary).
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- United States.
- Children with social disabilities--Education (Elementary)--United States--Case studies.
- Children with social disabilities.
- Critical pedagogy--United States--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 176 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Examines public and private writings of low-income urban, pre-adolescent girls, illuminating ways that girl's voice are often silenced in schools and society.
- She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the importance of including all of the girls' voices into the curriculum where their voices can be nurtured, cultured, and responded to in potentially productive ways.
- Through an exploration of two major writing contexts, the public and the private, Brett Elizabeth Blake chronicles how the girls learned through their writing not only how to name issues salient to them, such as domesticity and racism, but also how to resist the underlying notions of such important issues. The girls' stories are based on nearly three years of study, and the traditional notion of a process approach to writing is challenged by addressing how such an approach must become a site for significant tension and struggle over issues like ownership and voice. Blake suggests several curricular strategies, such as reader response techniques and a violence-prevention unit, as additional approaches that support girls' voices. This book explores and challenges us to look more closely at how the intersection of gender, race, and class is crucial for understanding not only how and what girls write about, but also why they write so deliberately and poignantly about their lives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791434796
- 079143480X
- OCLC:
- 35784467
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