The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices

Dr Bethan Marshall editor Professor Jackie Manuel editor Professor Donna L Pasternak editor Professor Jennifer Rowsell editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:20th Oct '22

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices cover

Provide international perspectives on reading from acquisition to memories of what it means to be a reader via classroom experience and the political debates and controversies that surround reading.

Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award 2021

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices
focuses on the experiences of reading from a young age to maturity and the different ways reading is encountered: in other words, the processes involved as well as the outcomes. The international group of experts, within both teaching and academia, focuses on reading in school: how is it taught? What is taught? How is it assessed? Controversial issues are explored: the acquisition of phonics; teaching the canon, including or ignoring digital texts; the advent of standards-based tests. The contributions also consider people’s biographies of reading, their memories of reading in school and their current views on literature. Together, this well-edited volume provides a more complete view of reading than is currently on offer, exploring all aspects of what it means to be literate and how we define being literate.

This book provides a very interesting wide range of current thinking about reading across different contexts. It engages with ongoing issues and debates about reading, and threads running through the volume provide a cohesive and thought provoking narrative. With diverse voices and perspectives it is a valuable addition to the literature. * Lucy Taylor, Lecturer in Education, University of Leeds, UK *

ISBN: 9781350244597

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272 pages