Apart together: “girl talk” and “boy talk” classes at an urban middle school
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1998
Abstract
Subgroups within a school can fracture or strengthen the larger community. In this article, participant observation of two classes offered in an urban middle school, "Girl Talk" and "Boy Talk, " reveal their fracturing and strengthening effects on community at the schooL The classes differed from each other in a number of ways, including organization, goals, sense of community, and actual or potential fracturing and strengthening effects. The reconfiguration of the classes after only 12 weeks suggests that the schoolfound itprudent to dilute their influence to a level that could more easily be tolerated, monitored, and controlled.
Publication Title
Urban Education
Repository Citation
Calderwood, Patricia E., "Apart together: “girl talk” and “boy talk” classes at an urban middle school" (1998). School of Education and Human Development Faculty Publications. 16.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/education-facultypubs/16
Published Citation
Calderwood, P. E. (1998). Apart together: “girl talk” and “boy talk” classes at an urban middle school. Urban Education,33, (2), 243-263.
DOI
10.1177/0042085998033002005
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