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What does it mean to become a reader? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging children in reading for pleasure in the 21st century? This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation, multiculturalism and datafication. Raising the next generation of engaged readers requires knowledge of the enduring characteristics of engagement and markers of quality in books and e-books. In addition, in order to develop new insights into children’s experience of reading on and off screen, nuanced understandings of psychological and socio-cultural research are offered. The cross-disciplinary examination integrates key research from educational psychology, new literacies, multimodality and socio-cultural perspectives and explores consequences for practice. An authoritative guide – it invites graduates, researchers and teachers to participate in the authors’ interdisciplinary dialogue about reading for pleasure.
Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Era
Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Era
Our shared interest in children’s volitional engagement in reading is motivated not only by scholarly concerns, but also by policy and practice questions. International evidence reveals that the frequency with which young people, and particularly boys, engage in volitional reading markedly decreases as they move through the years of schooling (Mullis et al., 2012; OECD, 2010). Furthermore, reading for pleasure (RfP) is not always foregrounded in schools in ways that nurture young readers and enable reciprocal reading communities to be built. We believe that more attention needs to be paid to the experience of reading, the inner satisfactions and pleasures, as well as those experienced through shared engagement and discussion. ...
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