Beyond Stereotypes? Talking about Gender in School Booktalk

Autor/in	Barajas, Katarina Eriksson
Titel	Beyond Stereotypes? Talking about Gender in School Booktalk
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 3 (2008) 2, S.129-144 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745-7823
Schlagwörter	Sex Stereotypes; Clubs; Grade 4; Gender Issues; Students; Foreign Countries; Social Values; Fiction; Social Attitudes; Reading Materials; Discussion (Teaching Technique); Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Gender Bias; Childrens Literature; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Club; Klub; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Geschlechterfrage; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Ausland; Sozialer Wert; Fiktion; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Geschlechterstereotyp; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Schweden
Abstract	The Swedish educational system states that work in schools should depict and mediate equality. One way of achieving this is through fiction, which according to the syllabus provides students with knowledge about the living conditions of women and men during different epochs and places. The present paper examines gender in a Swedish school, analysing "book club" discussions, using a discursive approach. The data consist of video-recorded teacher-led booktalk sessions, involving small groups of pupils in grades 4-7. It was found that the teachers and/or the pupils invoked gender issues in all book club sessions. The fictive events were, at times, discussed in gender-stereotyped ways. Yet, the teachers and pupils also transcended gender stereotypes in several cases. In many of those cases, there was a generational pattern, in that the participants tended to apply less stereotyped thinking when talking about fictive characters of their own age. (Contains 6 excerpts and 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10