Scotch Literature Festival 2003  >  Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Senior Lecturer in the Social Diversity and Health in the School of Health Sciences at Deakin University, maria's publications include Someone you know; Girls Talk: Young Women Speak their Hearts and Minds; Tapestry; Boys' Stuff: Talking About What Matters; and So What's A Boy? Issues of Masculinity and Schooling.

Get real, write real (Yr 10, 11 and 12)
What does it mean to 'get real'? Do you 'get real' about your life and who you are? Is 'getting real' about 'getting cool' and 'fitting in'? What stops you from 'being real' about what matters to you: your peers, teachers, parents, yourself? How do you write about what's 'real' for you? In this presentation we'll be looking at how young people have 'written their realities' about life stuff such as school, family, sexuality, relationships, drugs, friendships, bullying, and body image.

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