Children, Literacy and Ethnicity (eBook)

Reading Identities in the Primary School

Lexie Scherer (Autor)

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2016
198 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-53737-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Mainstream narratives suggest Black and African Caribbean children, white working class children, and boys, are 'failing' to learn to read. This book investigates intersections between race, class and gender in the picture of the 'poor reader', starting with young children's voices. What is the place of home learning in the story of children learning- or failing to learn to read? What do we learn about children's identity formation as they engage with books? Social science has not focused on reading as a social practice in the lives of children, starting with their perspectives, and this book fills a major gap. Policy and teachers' discourses are well represented in the literature; children's experiences of reading are not. This book not only shows the complex meanings children make of reading, but also that through consulting pupil voice it is possible to explore different issues around reading than those in adult-led debates.

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This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class. Based on research using a participative, innovative design with young children, issues of identity, belonging and classroom hierarchies are explored in complex and poignant ways by the children.

Autor

Alexandra Scherer is Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research focuses on exploring children's literacies, their identity work and their agency.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
List of Figures 7
A Note on Interview Transcripts 8
Acknowledgements 9
1 Setting the Scene on Children’s Reading 10
2 Children and Reading: Mapping Literacy 25
3 Research and Fieldwork at Three Chimneys School 42
4 The Child and Reading: Narratives of Literacy Competence 57
5 The Materiality of the Book 84
6 A Politics of Identity: Narratives of Migration, Place and Faith 107
7 Race and the Embodiment of Difference 135
8 A Reflection on Children, Reading and Identity 163
Appendices 184
Bibliography 187
Index 200

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 198 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: children • Education • Ethnicity • Identity • language • Linguistics • Literacy • Migration • Primary school • Reading • schools • Social Science • Sociolinguistics • Sociology • Teaching
• ISBN-10: 1-137-53737-X / 113753737X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-53737-9 / 9781137537379