'We occasionally miss a bath but we never miss stories': Fathers reading to their young children in the home setting. (June 2017)
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- Title:
- 'We occasionally miss a bath but we never miss stories': Fathers reading to their young children in the home setting. (June 2017)
- Main Title:
- 'We occasionally miss a bath but we never miss stories': Fathers reading to their young children in the home setting
- Authors:
- Swain, Jon
Cara, Olga
Mallows, David - Abstract:
- This paper reports findings from a mixed methods research project in 2011, which set out to examine the extent and nature of father and child shared home reading practices. There was a particular focus on exploring fathers' perceptions of their role in reading with their child, aged five years old. The research was commissioned by Booktrust and conducted by the National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy. It involved 254 fathers and the results from the study are supplemented and enhanced by analysis of data on fathers' reading from the Millennium Cohort Study. One of the main findings from this study and the Millennium Cohort Study data is that significant numbers of fathers read to their children either every day or a few times a week. The other findings are presented under the headings of father's own reading practices, their motivation for reading with their child/children, the place and the time reading occurs, the strategies and practices that are employed, the types of text that are read, the models or influences fathers draw on and the barriers that they believe militate against them reading with their child/children.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of early childhood literacy. Volume 17:Number 2(2017:Jun.)
- Journal:
- Journal of early childhood literacy
- Issue:
- Volume 17:Number 2(2017:Jun.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 17, Issue 2 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0017-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 176
- Page End:
- 202
- Publication Date:
- 2017-06
- Subjects:
- Reading practices -- reading frequency -- literacy -- fathers -- parents -- young children
Literacy -- Periodicals
Reading (Early childhood) -- Periodicals
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