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ERIC Number: EJ483166
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4103
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Inviting Multiple Perspectives: Creating Opportunities for Student Talk about Gender Inequalities in Texts.
Alvermann, Donna E.; Commeyras, Michelle
Journal of Reading, v37 n7 p566-71 Apr 1994
Argues that textbook language influences classroom talk in both coercive and liberating ways. Offers an approach that helps teachers use that fact to get students thinking about texts' hidden messages, in particular regarding gender inequalities. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Females, Secondary Education, Sex Bias, Sex Discrimination, Sex Fairness, Sex Stereotypes
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Note: A Themed Issue on Classroom Talk about Text: What Teenagers and Teachers Come to Know about the World through Talk about Text.