Diversity in Literary Response: Revisiting Gender Expectations

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Main Author: Brendler, Beth M.
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Published: 2014
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contents Diversity in Literary Response: Revisiting Gender Expectations Brendler, Beth M. Gender Differences Expectation Language Arts Teacher Attitudes College Faculty Adolescent Literature Ethnography Reader Response Social Theories Group Discussion Gender Bias Sex Stereotypes Library Education Information Science Education Reading Materials Reader Text Relationship 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 structured around a social constructionist lens, including reader response and gender theories. The methodology employed ethnographic methods, as well as critical discourse analysis. This study explored the ways participants identified with or resisted gender expectations in their book discussion groups. It looked at the kind of discourses that were maintained and disrupted in the groups and within their personal blogs and written responses. The participants showed diversity within gender, which calls into question the use of gender as a major consideration for making reader's advisory, collection development, programming, or pedagogical decisions. It indicates that preservice librarians should be offered a variety of opportunities to examine and redefine our current strategies for motivating readers and recommending library materials. As library educators it is essential that we offer librarians lenses beyond gender in which to view their clients.
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spellingShingle Diversity in Literary Response: Revisiting Gender Expectations
Brendler, Beth M.
Gender Differences
Expectation
Language Arts
Teacher Attitudes
College Faculty
Adolescent Literature
Ethnography
Reader Response
Social Theories
Group Discussion
Gender Bias
Sex Stereotypes
Library Education
Information Science Education
Reading Materials
Reader Text Relationship
Diversity in Literary Response: Revisiting Gender Expectations Brendler, Beth M. Gender Differences Expectation Language Arts Teacher Attitudes College Faculty Adolescent Literature Ethnography Reader Response Social Theories Group Discussion Gender Bias Sex Stereotypes Library Education Information Science Education Reading Materials Reader Text Relationship 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 structured around a social constructionist lens, including reader response and gender theories. The methodology employed ethnographic methods, as well as critical discourse analysis. This study explored the ways participants identified with or resisted gender expectations in their book discussion groups. It looked at the kind of discourses that were maintained and disrupted in the groups and within their personal blogs and written responses. The participants showed diversity within gender, which calls into question the use of gender as a major consideration for making reader's advisory, collection development, programming, or pedagogical decisions. It indicates that preservice librarians should be offered a variety of opportunities to examine and redefine our current strategies for motivating readers and recommending library materials. As library educators it is essential that we offer librarians lenses beyond gender in which to view their clients.
title Diversity in Literary Response: Revisiting Gender Expectations
topic Gender Differences
Expectation
Language Arts
Teacher Attitudes
College Faculty
Adolescent Literature
Ethnography
Reader Response
Social Theories
Group Discussion
Gender Bias
Sex Stereotypes
Library Education
Information Science Education
Reading Materials
Reader Text Relationship
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1074297