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Sam Duncan - Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development

Av Sam Duncan

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Adult literacy teachers are constantly searching for effective, engaging and distinctly 'adult' ways to develop adult emergent reading and, for at least the past two hundred years, adults have formed themselves into reading circles to read and discuss novels on a weekly or monthly basis. Why then are reading circles rarely used, or studied, in formal adult literacy provision? This book explores adult reading development, novel reading and reading circles in the context of a wider examination of reading pedagogies and practices in the English-speaking world. It discusses reading as both an individual and a communal act and investigates the relationship between literature and literacy development, practice and pedagogy (including a reassessment of the controversial approaches of reading aloud and phonics for adults). Sam Duncan reviews a case study of an adult reading circle in a large London further education college and identifies the wider implications for the teaching and learning of adult emergent reading, for the use and understanding of reading circles and for how we understand the novel reading experience more broadly.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-11-07
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 345 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781472530141
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Sam Duncan is Lecturer in Education in the Department of Lifelong and Comparative Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. She has previously taught adult literacy, English as a foreign language and poetry, film and drama on adult return to study programmes.

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This lively and engaged book invites us to look at reading in a different way, moving us beyond the tired old divisions between literacy and literature that have so bedevilled adult education. In doing so, it offers a new take on the idea of reading for pleasure, gathering up the dimensions of reading that are an indispensable part of all acts of reading: cognitive, imaginative, affective, educational and communicative. It includes a useful overview of the wide range of theoretical approaches to reading and challenges the idea that some kinds of reading are "functional" whereas others are "frivolous and non-essential". Writtenby an adult literacy expert, it suggests that reading researchers need to talk to readers themselves about their experiences and ideas about reading. It goeson to present the many insights that resulted from asking emerging adult readers the question "What does reading mean to you?" It also details the long and fascinating history of reading circles and advocates them as a potential pedagogy for adult literacy - a pedagogy that builds on a common reading practice, and which combines the pleasures and politics of novel reading with the sensibilities of adult literacy teaching.

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