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Education and girls on the autism spectrum : developing an integrated approach
\"Addressing the gender gap in the understanding of autism, this book takes a multi-perspective examination of the key issues in education for girls with autism. This collection distills latest research and makes recommendations for a collaborative and integrated approach that enables girls on the spectrum to reach their full potential. Diagnostic procedures have traditionally been based on male norms, leading to a bias in research, as well as missed or delayed diagnosis among girls and women with autism. There is now a growing recognition that girls with autism need to be diagnosed earlier so that appropriate support can be offered. By establishing close collaborations between girls with autism, their parents, teachers and specialist professionals, the field can move forwards in terms of providing understanding and an appropriate educational framework for success\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The road out
Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students’ lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher’s journey of hope and discovery with her students—girls growing up poor in a neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls something she never had: a first-rate education, and a chance to live their dreams. A contemporary tragedy is brought to life as she leads us deep into the worlds of Adriana, Blair, Mariah, Elizabeth, Shannon, Jessica, and Alicia: seven girls coming of age in poverty. This is a moving story about girls who have lost their childhoods, but who face the street’s torments with courage and resiliency. “I want out,” says 10-year-old Blair, a tiny but tough girl who is extremely poor and yet deeply imaginative and precocious. Hicks tries to convey to her students a sense of the power of fiction and of sisterhood to get them through the toughest years of adolescence. But by the time they’re sixteen, eight years after the start of the class, the girls are experiencing the collision of their youthful dreams with the pitfalls of growing up in chaotic single-parent families amid the deteriorating cityscape. Yet even as they face disappointments and sometimes despair, these girls cling to their desire for a better future. The author’s own life story—from a poorly educated girl in a small mountain town to a Harvard-educated writer, teacher, and social advocate—infuses this chronicle with a message of hope.
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To Advance the Race
From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered
education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M.
Perkins's study ranges across educational and geographical settings
to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students,
professors, and administrators. Beginning with early efforts and
the establishment of abolitionist colleges, Perkins follows the
history of Black women's post-Civil War experiences at elite white
schools and public universities in northern and midwestern states.
Their presence in Black institutions like Howard University marked
another advancement, as did Black women becoming professors and
administrators. But such progress intersected with race and
education in the postwar era. As gender questions sparked conflict
between educated Black women and Black men, it forced the former to
contend with traditional notions of women's roles even as the 1960s
opened educational opportunities for all African Americans.
A first of its kind history, To Advance the Race is an
enlightening look at African American women and their
multi-generational commitment to the ideal of education as a
collective achievement.
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Jewish girls coming of age in America, 1860-1920
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860—1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published—or even read—to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls’ adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education.
Klapper explores the dual roles girls played as agents of acculturation and guardians of tradition. Their search for an identity as American girls that would not require the abandonment of Jewish tradition and culture mirrored the struggle of their families and communities for integration into American society.
While focusing on their lives as girls, not the adults they would later become, Klapper draws on the papers of such figures as Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah; Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat ; and Marie Syrkin, literary critic and Zionist. Klapper also analyzes the diaries, memoirs, and letters of hundreds of other girls whose later lives and experiences have been lost to history.
Told in an engaging style and filled with colorful quotes, the book brings to life a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community.
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Smart girls : success, school, and the myth of post-feminism
\"Are girls taking over the world? It would appear so, based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popular books touting girls' academic success. Girls are said to outperform boys in high school exams, university entrance and graduation rates, and professional certification. As a result, many in Western society assume that girls no longer need support. But in spite of the messages of post-feminism and neoliberal individualism that tell girls they have it all, the reality is far more complicated. Smart Girls investigates how academically successful girls deal with stress, the \"Supergirl\" drive for perfection, race and class, and the sexism that is still present in schools. Shedding light on girls' varied everyday experiences, strategic negotiations of traditional gender norms, and savoring of success, this book shows how teachers, administrators, parents, and media commentators can help smart girls thrive while they keep their eyes on an A+ and a bright future.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Canadian Islamic Schools
Based on eighteen months of fieldwork and interviews with forty-nine participants,Canadian Islamic Schoolsprovides significant insight into the role and function that Islamic schools have in Diasporic, Canadian, educational, and gender-related contexts.
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Elizabeth Parker’s Sampler/Diary: The Autobiographical Needle
Relying on an unusual stitched text made by a young servant in the 1830s, this essay sets out to explore the Victorian sampler as a didactic tool designed to inculcate desirable behaviour as well as literacy and numeracy in young girls. Often viewed as repetitive exercises designed to enforce social norms of femininity, however, samplers could paradoxically prove to be spaces for girls to express their individualities and subjectivities.
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