Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development

Zusatztext ‘An original, wide ranging and thoughtful account of a phenomenon that is rarely researched. Sam Duncan provides a clear account of her research embedded within a scholarly account of the social history of reading that will be of interest to teachers of adult literacy, students of reading, researchers, teachers and those with a general interest in the culture of reading in the 21st Century. The strength of this book is the clarity of its writing and the accessibility of the discussion, as well as its scholarly reach. The imaginative space of the reader is evoked through original research into adult literacy students who love to read. Duncan's argument that an historical understanding of adult literacy and of reading can broaden what it is to read and to write is vital in broadening our understanding of contemporary reading habits... The book also argues for the importance of reading for pleasure for all adults. As Duncan argues, ‘literacy is at once functional and metaphysical, individual and communal, transformative and transfiguring'. This vision for the potential of literacy can help us re-consider the sometimes utilitarian accounts of literacy presented in schools and college settings and instead offer a vision for literacy that is concerned with transformation and social empowerment.' Kate Pahl, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Sheffield, UK Informationen zum Autor Sam Duncan is Lecturer in Education in the Department ofLifelong and Comparative Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She has previously taught adult literacy, English as a foreign language and poetry, film and drama on adult return to study programmes. Klappentext An exploration of what a reading circle approach can offer adult emergent readers! and what adult literacy learners can tell us about novel reading. It explores adult reading development! novel reading and reading circles in the context of an examination of reading pedagogies and practices in the English-speaking world. Vorwort Exploration of what a reading circle approach can offer adult emergent readers, and what adult literacy learners can tell us about novel reading. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction \ 1. The Charted Waters of Reading: How Reading is Claimed, Researched and Defined by Different Fields \ 2. Reading and Adult Life \ 3. How We Learnt to Read \ 4. Literature and Literacy Development \ 5. Reading Circles \ 6. Researching a Reading Circle: What We Did \ 7. Researching a Reading Circle: What We Found \ 8. Reading as Experience \ 9. Reading Circles as 'Ideal Pedagogy' \ 10. The Individual and the Communal \ 11. The Pleasures and Politics of Novel Reading and Reading Circles \ Conclusion \...

Product details

• Authors: Sam Duncan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2012
• EAN: 9781441173157
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7315-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education