School Talk
209 pages, 6 x 9
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Release Date:01 Jun 1995
ISBN:9780813521794
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School Talk

Gender and Adolescent Culture

Rutgers University Press
Donna Eder is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. She earned her Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin. She has written numerous journal articles and book chapters in the areas of gender, schooling, and women's culture. Her current research involves in-depth interviews with storytellers from different cultures to better understand the role of storytelling in teaching about social differences and social dynamics.Eder has a deep interest in the sociology of education—and in community. Her first major research study of adolescent peer culture, SCHOOL TALK: GENDER AND ADOLESCENT CULTURE, led to her creating a service project in the Bloomington schools, Kids Against Cruel Treatment in Schools. KACTIS became an essential part of her first service-learning course, Social Context of Schooling. 

KACTIS revealed many social and ethical issues, launching Eder into more research, this time learning from Navajo and Kenyan storytellers how children can understand ethics and diversity through practices used in oral cultures. She borrowed non-Western concepts of learning as she crafted a service-learning project, Storytelling as Reflecting Time (START), which became the basis of a service-learning course, Knowledge and Community, taught to sociology majors and honor students.

The approach is so effective that Eder cannot accommodate all of the requests she receives for START, which is conducted both in the classroom and through extracurricular activities throughout Bloomington. She works with the Hutton Philanthropic Initiative, where students use storytelling to interact with community children in a meaningful way. Students in her Community Building Across Generations course take their storytelling to a nursing home and a program for children whose families are escaping domestic violence.

Eder also mentors other instructors on campus who are interested in service-learning.
Donne is a professor of sociology at Indiana University. She has published widely in the major sociology journals. Catherine Colleen Evans has worked as an adolescent counselor and social worker. Stephen Parker is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Montevallo, Alabama.
Acknowledgments ix
1Remember When?
 2 Gender, Talk, and School Culture 
3Entering the World of Middle School 
4Segregating the Unpopular from the Popular 31
5 Tough Guys, Wimps, and Weenies 61
6Crude Comments and Sexual Scripts 83
7 Learning to Smile Through the Pain 103
We May Be Friends with Them, But We're Not
Sluts 125
Reconsidering Gender, Talk, and Inequality 149
10 Where Do We Go from Here? 157
Appendix Notes on Methodology 171
Notes 177
Selected Bibliography 195
Index 199
 
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