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Course title: Social Foundations of Education Course Number: INTD 203 Course Instructor: Dr. Steet ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION provided by a student : My group and I are assigned to create a tri-fold poster using both sides to discuss 4-6th grade American girls as if we were cultural anthropologists. We are to use scholarly sources (most preferably journals and articles) in order to describe the pop culture and education of these girls. For pop culture we need to discuss various things such as media, health, style and social life. To go more indepth we need to discuss ideas such as movies, tv, computers, music, phones, magazines, drugs, eating disorders, sports, music, cliques, hair, make-up, clothing, maturity, boys, bullying and tolerance. On the education side the poster is split up into three topics: history of gender and education, characteristics of gender and education and girlhood. WHAT TO DO: For scholarly and professional journal articles on girls in popular culture For sample lessons that you might adapt to make them more 'girl-focused' or girl-friendly' See lessons in teacher editions of elementary and secondary textbooks for different academic subjects on the shelves in the Teacher Education Resource Center. See signs posted at ends of shelves indicating a school level and subject. Books under each subject with CT call numbers are textbooks. Teacher editions will be labeled. For primary sources including photos and other images related to popular culture, history of gender and education Search for newspaper photos for last 150 years on Accunet Multimedia. Photos reflect all aspects of life in U.S. and around the world. Search under 'girls education' and under 'young women'in the American Memory database which contains images, text and photos in the collections from the Library Congress. Also see descriptions of periodicals for girls in Library of Congress collections.