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Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture

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  • Age Range: 8 - 13 years
  • Grade Level: 3 - 8
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Heinemann (August 9, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0325004455
  • ISBN-13: 978-0325004457
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA must read for educators!
By Charliece Golding on April 22, 2007
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Author Thomas Newkirk offers insight into what turns boys on and off to literacy. Through his interivews, short stories, reviewed research, and personal accounts, he paints a picture that cannot be ignored. Throughout his book, Newkirk challenges literacy standards and literacy standards bearers to look at the choices and genres boys, in particular, are choosing when they read and write, and not to make assumptions about what boys enjoy. Newkirk also encourages us to confront cultural anxieties towards socicalization of boys, and not to "misread their masculinity". Lastly, through his book, Newkirk insists that we ask questions. We should question ourselves and our choices, our practice, our standards, and our interactions with boys in order to assist them in opening up the world of literacy that they have been denied full access to for a long time.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFascinating Perspective on Boys and Literacy
By Dani on January 6, 2008
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A wonderful book about the differences in boys' literacy learning styles. Refreshing, non-female perspective about literacy, the use of violence in writing and the disconnect between teachers' expectations and boys' interests. I borrowed this book from the library, but loved it so much that I bought my own copy to write in. The highest of praise!
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5.0 out of 5 starsEnglish teacher? Go buy this book.
By kitode on February 12, 2007
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Parents and others will find it interesting too. This is a fascinating look into the implicit anti non-middle-class-girl bias in our schools!

One of the ways to keep kids engaged is to make sure the curriculum doesn't assume a life experience foreign to them. Just as we wouldn't teach math using only sports analogies -- pre-Title IX this used to be an obvious case of pro-boy bias -- we shouldn't teach English using a reading list that alienates boys.

Also the companion book should be "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys."
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5.0 out of 5 starsTom Newkirk Challenges The Standards And The Standard Bearers In Literacy On Behalf Of Boys
By Aung Htun on July 16, 2008
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"...In Misreading Masculinity,
TOM NEWKIRK CHALLENGES THE STANDARDS AND THE STANDARD BEARERS IN LITERACY ON BEHALF OF BOYS.
In a captivating set of arguments brilliantly unwound across the chapters of this book,
Tom wages his own (nonviolent) battle with the assumptions I and thousands of other literacy educators have long held when it comes to the topics and genres some children, particularly boys, choose to write and read....."
[from the book of the foreword by Ellin Oliver Keene]
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5.0 out of 5 starsa must-read for teachers...
By Sarah Upchurch on October 27, 2009
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Thomas Newkirk provides educators with answers and ideas to the ongoing concern we may have concerning our male students and their love for popular culture but also their dislike for literacy. In "Misreading Masculinity," he encourages us not to compare boys and girls but to discover and value their differences. Newkirk uses in-depth interviews with students to hear about their reading/writing preferences first hand. Throughout the book, Newkirk discusses the differences more closely and provides suggestions for closing the gender gap. What would it take for us to "join the game" that boys find so exciting? Are we aware of the positive role that action media can play in the impression males have on literacy? Newkirk encourages us to think outside of the box because in the end, gender, culture, race, age and their environment play a large role in their literacy preferences. Overall, the message Newkirk presents will hopefully be a start for all teachers to reach out to their male students and understand their love for popular culture. "The trap, perhaps, one we cannot fully escape from, is to turn differences into deficits. It is difficult to step outside our own skin, outside our sense of the 'normal' or 'expected' or 'good'."(p.13)
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