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Likes and Loathing in the Middle Time: How Adolescents Time-Space Their Figured Literacy Worlds
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Laursen, Helle Pia – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
Based on data from a researcher-generated activity and with the overall objective to gain insight into how students talk about themselves as readers, the study examines how, in a conversation with two classmates and a research assistant, 12-13-year-old students embrace or reject different figured worlds related to literacy. The analysis…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Literacy, Reading Attitudes, Interviews
Mathematically Gifted Adolescent Females' Mixed Sentiment toward Gender Stereotypes
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Kao, Chen-yao – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
There has been a paucity of research on gifted individuals' perceptions of gender stereotypes. The purpose of this study was to explore mathematically gifted adolescent females' perceptions of gender stereotypes through a research design of the qualitative multiple case study involving the constant comparison and the Three C's analysis scheme.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Mathematics, Females, Adolescents
The Importance of Pleasure Reading in the Lives of Young Teens: Self-Identification, Self-Construction and Self-Awareness
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Howard, Vivian – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
This paper reports on a research study investigating the role of pleasure reading in the lives of 12-15 year old residents of an eastern Canadian regional municipality. Pleasure reading was found to fulfill three broad functions: it enhanced academic performance, social engagement and personal development. In conclusion, the study confirms that…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Information Seeking, Values, Recreational Reading