Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture

by Thomas Newkirk and Ellin Oliver Keene

Post-Columbine has been a time when the issues of popular culture and the behavior of boys have generated more heat than light. This complex, contested intersection has led to censorship and worse-alarm, irrationality, and a failure to examine our ways of teaching, particularly teaching literacy to boys. In this book Tom Newkirk takes an up-close and personal look at elementary boys and their relationship to sports, movies, video games, and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325004455
• ISBN13: 9780325004457
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 8