The research project: UK Children Go Online (UKCGO) aims to offer a rigorous and timely investigation of 9-19 year olds’ use of the internet. The project balances an assessment of online risks and opportunities in order to contribute to developing academic debates and policy frameworks for children and young people’s internet use. The research was funded by an Economic and Social Research Council grant under the ‘e-Society’ Programme, with co-funding from AOL, BSC, Childnet-International, Citizens Online and ITC. This report presents key findings from a major national, inhome, face to face survey, lasting some 40 minutes, of 1,511 9-19 year olds and 906 parents of the 9-17 year olds, using Random Location sampling across the UK (see Annex). It complements the project’s recent qualitative report on young people’s experiences of the internet. The fieldwork, conducted via multi-media computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) with children and a paper questionnaire to their parents, took place between 12 January and 7 March 2004. In this report of findings from the UKCGO survey, all percentages have been weighted in accordance with population statistics.

https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/395/1/UKCGOsurveyreport.pdf

UK children go online: surveying the experiences of young people and their parents

Christie (1992), in the previous year's volume of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, reviewed literacy initiatives in Australia which drew on systemic functional linguistics, focusing on three themes: differences between speech and writing, written genres, and the study of spoken language. This paper is designed to complement her review, highlighting ongoing research within the same general theoretical framework, and focusing on the general question of modeling context in educational linguistics.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0267190500002440

Genre and Literacy-Modeling Context in Educational Linguistics

This is the space age. Not just for sputniks and moonshots but also for hi-fi. We have ‘space’ conveyed through stereo sound – if we can find space for that extra stereo speaker. The theory that space is limited is nothing new to the average housewife. (HiFi Review, April 1959, p. 49)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0261143000008096

‘Turn it down!’ she shrieked: gender, domestic space, and high fidelity, 1948–59

We drew on Foucault's notion of ‘practices of the self’ to examine how young people take up, negotiate, and resist the imperatives of a public health discourse concerned with the relationships between health, fitness, and the body. We did this through a discussion of the ways young women and men talk about their own and others' bodies, in the context of a number of in-depth interviews conducted for the Life Activity Project, a study of the place and meaning of physical activity in young people's lives, funded by an Australian Research Council Grant. We found that the young women and men in the study engaged the health/fitness discourse very differently: for the young men, health conflated with fitness as an embodied capacity to do physical work; and for the young women, health was a much more difficult and complex project associated with managing and monitoring practices associated with eating and exercise to maintain an ‘appropriate’ body shape.

Being fit and looking healthy: Young women's and men's constructions of health and fitness

Addressing the educational needs of boys

parative advantage. The work would also be stronger if the author could provide more detail as to how profitable the Boott was and where the profits were re-invested; Gross makes it clear that profits were not plowed back into the mill. It is probable that the figures are simply not available but, if they could be presented, they would make a strong case even more convincing. In his postscript Gross draws parallels between modern entrepreneurs, who are often criticized for \"being devoted to the production of profits, not of goods\" (p. 242), and the owners of the Boott. He argues that the modern \"plunderers\" are not anomalies but are the legitimate descendants of the financiers who organized Lowell and the Boott. In short, Gross turns a study of a defunct textile corporation into a condemnation of economic practices and theories that are widely accepted today and are inherent in the North American Free Trade Agreement. How his thesis will be received and incorporated into the interpretation of Lowell is an interesting question.

Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.@@@Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture and Schooling.

Part 1 Making the texts: the cultural construction of femininity - gender relations, schooling and popular culture theorizing culture gender and culture schooling and the reproduction of gender relations the pedagogical construction of femininity - textuality and the classroom sexism in the classroom teaching about texts working with texts. Part 2 Reading the texts: days of their lives - watching the soaps never-ending stories girls and television girls watch the soaps soap operas and femininity romancing the girl - fiction, fantasy and femininity the popularity of romance fiction fashioning the feminine through romance fiction the world of "Dolly" fiction reading the romance dear diary - girls and writing girls' writing - boys' writing writing tasks and topics - the potential for misogyny writing against the grain - resistance and re-writing. Part 3 Rewriting the texts feminist classroom practice - the possibilities for challenge and change the curriculum and change subjectivity and change refashioning the feminine.

Pam Gilbert

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Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.@@@Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture and Schooling.

Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture, and Schooling