Invisible Girls: At Risk Adolescent Girls' Writing Within and Beyond School

ISBN-13: 9781433114946 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Publication date: 02/08/2012 Series: Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society , #58 Edition description: 2nd ed. Pages: 152 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) Invisible Girls is an examination of twenty-four at-risk adolescent girls’ writing practices in a Third Space setting located within a school but outside of the confines of a regular classroom. Through a description of the girls’ writing over a three-and-a-half-year period in this setting, Mellinee Lesley details phenomena that both support and suppress at-risk adolescent girls in their quest to achieve academic success through their writing practices. This book offers educators insights into teaching writing to adolescent girls who are falling through the cracks of the public education system in the United States. Much more attention needs to be given to the literacy practices and pedagogical needs of this considerable population o