Views of Girls, Views of Change: The Role of Theory in Helping Us Understand Gender Literacy and Gender Equity by Gwen Gorzelsky, Frances J Ranney, & Hillary Anne Ward
This paper draws on two sources to theorize gender literacy. First, it examines several influential theories of social change embedded in community literacy scholarship. Next, it uses two of these theories to analyze qualitative data from an after-school program. In this program, university students mentored Latina middle-school students to promote both gender literacy and academic…