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The brief exchange illustrates some of the positioning and subjective work that accompanied girls' engagement in the science newsletter activity in an afterschool program for girls only. One youth excused their talkative nature by labeling themselves as “being girls”, a means of self-positioning that helped them save face in light of their slow progress on a draft of a journal article.
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Rahm, J., Gonsalves, A. (2012). “To Understand the news you need Science!” Girls’ Positioning and Subjectivity in and Beyond a Newsletter Activity in an Afterschool Science Program. In: Varelas, M. (eds) Identity Construction and Science Education Research. Bold Visions in Educational Research, vol 35. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-043-9_5
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