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- ISSN: 0360-9170
- E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Muted Colors: Gender and Classroom Silence
- Source: Language Arts, Volume 77, Issue 4, Mar 2000, p. 301 - 308
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- 01 Mar 2000
Abstract
Highlights some causes for silence in schoolgirls and other marginalized students. Suggests ways teachers can help these students participate more fully as speakers and writers in language arts classes. Shows how language arts instruction can change students’ attitudes about themselves as gendered subjects, agents, and communicators.
© 2000 by the National Council of Teachers of English