Young People Reading: Empirical Research Across International Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781138291584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 194 str.

Evelyn Arizpe; Gabrielle Cliff Hodges

Opis

The value of qualitative research into young people's reading is often under-rated compared with data generated by large-scale survey-style studies. However, there is a very great deal to be learnt about the richness of young people's reading in which small-scale qualitative research projects are well-placed to explore. In this fascinating text researchers share their experiences of undertaking research in different parts of the world in the 12-21 age-range and the variety they find. The book yields important insights into young people's reading in the early twenty-first century in many diverse media and languages, and also offers an array of empirical methodologies and research methods by which the researchers generated their rich data and which is intended to support and inspire future researcher and teachers.

Spis treści

Introduction SECTION 1 MAKING ADOLESCENT READING CHOICES VISIBLE 1 The possibilities of comics reading: Uncovering a complex and situated reading experience in Canada 2 The residue of fiction in the memory of adolescence: The potential effect of reading fiction in Turkey 3 Rivers of reading: A research method to explore young adults’ personal reading histories SECTION 2 ADOLESCENT READING IN TIMES OF CRISIS 4 Reading fears and opportunities: Researching changes over 25 years in the literacy practices of Mexican adolescents 5 Young adults’ attitudes towards reading in Lebanon 6 ‘I think I was born with a suitcase’: Blackfoot adolescent readers’ responses to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian SECTION 3 YOUNG ADULT READERS’ EXPERIENCES WITHIN AND BEYOND SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY 7 Adolescent reading habits: The effect of school activities on reading practices 8 Young people reading in Uganda: Making connections between literature and reality 9 Exploring post-16 literature in English in a Malaysian classroom: A hermeneutic phenomenological perspective 10 Pressure, pleasure and function: Malaysian undergraduates reading across boundaries in a university in England Conclusion