Reading circles, novels and adult reading development. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sam Duncan.
• Other Names: Duncan, Sam
• Contents: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Charted Waters of Reading: How Reading is Claimed, Researched and Defined by Different Fields; The Scientific Studies of Reading: Psychology and Neuroscience; Literary Theory; Social History; Literacy as a Social Practice; Education; Interdisciplinary Studies; The Reader Perspective; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 2 Reading and Adult Life; Trade, Religion and Empire; Invention and the Shifting Physicality of Reading; Reading and Writing; Reading Aloud and Reading Silently. Reading, Civil Rights and IlliteracyChapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 3 How We Learnt to Read; A Historical Overview; Learning to Read Formally and Informally; Adult Reading Provision and Pedagogy; The Late Twentieth-Century Anglophone Adult Literacy Campaigns; Adult Literacy Pedagogy Today; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 4 Literature and Literacy Development; Starting Definitions; The Historical Relationship between Literature and Literacy Development; What is it About Literature?; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 5 Reading Circles; Educational Research. Historical and Ethnographic ResearchElizabeth Long; Jenny Hartley; Reading Circles in 2010/2011; The Jane Austen Book Club and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 6 Researching a Reading Circle: What We Did; Adult Literacy Learners to Reading Circle Members; Reading Circle to Research Case-Study; The Reading Circle Process; The Research Process; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 7 Researching a Reading Circle: What We Did; The Mind-Maps; 1. Reading as Five Acts; 2. Reading Identity; 3. Knowing Words; 4. Building a Story. 5. Fiction, Truth and Learning6. Reading as a Group; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 8 Reading as Experience; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 9 Reading Circles as 'Ideal Pedagogy'; Peer-Teaching; Negotiated Syllabi; Differentiation; The Needs of First- and Second-Language Speakers; Learning Words; Citizenship; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 10 The Individual and the Communal; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 11 The Pleasures and Politics of Novels and Reading Circles; Chapter Summary; Suggested Reading; Conclusion; Summary of Implications. A Return to the ArgumentsCall to Action; Final Thoughts; Glossary; Reference.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum International Pub
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (241 pages)
• Subjects: 372.64; Reading -- Remedial teaching; Developmental reading; Reading; Education; EDUCATION -- Elementary; Developmental reading; Education; Reading; Reading -- Remedial teaching; Electronic books; Electronic books -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441172334; 1441172335; 9781280123801
• Related ISBNs: 128012380X
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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