Children, Literacy and Ethnicity

Reading Identities in the Primary School
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-53736-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 3648 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scherer, Lexie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Soziologie, Bildungssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Setting the Scene on Children's Reading

2. Children and Reading: Mapping Literacy

3. Research and Fieldwork at Three Chimneys School

4. The Child and Reading: Narratives of Literacy Competence

5. The Materiality of the Book

6. A Politics of Identity: Narratives of Migration, Place and Faith

7. Race, and the Embodiment of Difference

8. A Reflection on Children, Reading and Identity

Über Autor(innen)

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.