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Olitsky, Stacy – Urban Education, 2015
This article investigates interactional processes by which students from non-dominant groups develop academic identities within schools that privilege the dominant group. It draws on an ethnographic study of an urban magnet school, focusing on a discourse analysis of conversations between 3 eighth-grade girls. Findings include that students…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Identification, Ethnography, Urban Schools
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Letendre, Joan; Smith, Ellen – Children & Schools, 2011
Girl fighting and its relational context is a problem that is receiving extensive attention in popular and academic circles. This article reports on a project that gathered the opinions from focus groups of seventh- and eighth-grade girls, organized to understand the perspectives of young adolescent girls in middle school on girl fighting. Both…
Descriptors: Females, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Violence