Children, literacy and ethnicity : reading identities in the primary school / Lexie Scherer.
2016
LC149 .S378 2016
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Title
Children, literacy and ethnicity : reading identities in the primary school / Lexie Scherer.
ISBN
9781137537379 (electronic book)
113753737X (electronic book)
9781137537362
113753737X (electronic book)
9781137537362
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 198 pages).
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LC149 .S378 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
372.4
Summary
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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Table of Contents
Setting the scene on children's reading
Children and reading : mapping literacy
Research and fieldwork at Three Chimneys School
The child and reading : narratives of literacy competence
The materiality of the book
A politics of identity : narraties of migration, place, and faith
Race, and the embodiment of difference
A reflection on children, reading, and identity.
Children and reading : mapping literacy
Research and fieldwork at Three Chimneys School
The child and reading : narratives of literacy competence
The materiality of the book
A politics of identity : narraties of migration, place, and faith
Race, and the embodiment of difference
A reflection on children, reading, and identity.