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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.
Reciprocal Reading Communities
Reciprocal Reading Communities
The concept of reciprocity is key to nurturing communities of readers. Alongside interaction, reciprocity was identified as a key characteristic of engaged reading communities in one of our studies (Cremin et al., 2014). However, in the light of Rosenblatt’s (1978/1994) transactional theory of reading, it takes on additional relevance. Texts are not passive objects; they connect and guide us into reciprocal relationships with authors and with other readers. Such relationships are typified by interaction, so our focus in this chapter is on the facets of interactive and shared engagement in environments where children can interact with others around texts, both online and offline. Children’s lived experience of reading needs to be acknowledged in reading communities so that more ...
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