 Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior Highreviewed by Taylor Jill McLean - 1999  Title: Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior HighAuthor(s): Margaret Finders Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807735604, Pages: 144, Year: 1997 Search for book at Amazon.com Who cannot remember the illicit thrill of possible apprehension when passing notes in class to friends? So serious was the infraction considered to be at the all-girls school I attended that being caught meant a visit to the headmistress. These notes are part of what Margaret Finders names as hidden literacies in Just Girls: Hidden Literacies in Junior High, a book with crucial information for teachers, school administrators, and those interested in adolescent girls and their shifting and multiple identities. A teacher of language arts for thirteen years and a supervisor of student teachers, as a doctoral student Finders moves to the back of a seventh grade classroom, choosing a school district where she knows and values the teachers and believes there to be a sound student-centered pedagogy. Spending a year in which a group of sixth graders, aged 11 and 12, transitioned into junior high, Finders documented literacy events in and out of school. Picking two groups of girls as focal students (fourteen girls total) Finders... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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