Children's Literacy Practices and Preferences

Harry Potter and Beyond

Jane Sunderland author Steven Dempster author Joanne Thistlethwaite author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:6th Apr '16

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Children's Literacy Practices and Preferences cover

Over the past few decades there have been intense debates in education surrounding children’s literacy achievement and ways to promote reading, particularly that of boys. The Harry Potter book series has been received enthusiastically by very many children, boys and girls alike, but has also been constructed in popular and media discourses as a children’s, particularly a boys’, literacy saviour. Children’s Literacy Practices and Preferences: Harry Potter and Beyond provides empirical evidence of young people’s reported literacy practices and views on reading, and of how they see how the Harry Potter series as having impacted their own literacy. The volume explores and debunks some of the myths surrounding Harry Potter and literacy, and contextualizes these within children’s wider reading.

ISBN: 9781138841239

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

240 pages