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oapen-20.500.12657-588822022-10-15T03:27:52Z Space, Place, and Children’s Reading Development Mackey, Margaret Reading life place-based reading childhood reading experience childhood literacy childhood studies interdisciplinary children's literature child readers Harry Potter reading development textual interpretation reading studies literacy studies bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSY Children’s & teenage literature studies bic Book Industry Communication::Y Children's, Teenage & educational::YQ Educational material::YQC Educational: English language & literacy::YQCS Educational: English language: reading & writing skills bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFC Literacy This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children’s reading development is affected by their home setting, and how this sense of place influences textual interpretation of the books they read. Based on qualitative research and structured around interviews with twelve participants, Space, Place and Children's Reading Development focuses on the digital maps and artistic renderings these readers were asked to create of a place (real or imagined) that they felt reflected their literate youth, and the discussions that followed about these maps and their evolution as readers. Analysing the participant’s responses, Margaret Mackey looks at the rich insights offered about the impact on childhood stability after experiences such as migration; the "reading spaces" children make based on their social relationships and domestic spheres; the creation of "textual spaces" and the significance of the recurring motif of forests in the participants’ maps; the importance of the Harry Potter novels; the basis of life-long reading habits; psychological spaces and whether readers visualize when they read. Blending theoretical perspectives on reading from many disciplines with the personal experiences of readers of diverse nationalities, languages, disciplinary interests, and life experiences, this is an enlightening account of the behaviors of readers, reading histories, and place-based reader responses to literature. By building greater understanding about the broad and subtle processes that enable people to read, this study refines the kind of questions we ask about reading and moves towards developing a multidisciplinary language for the study and discussion of reading practices in contemporary times. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 2022-10-14T14:55:31Z 2022-10-14T14:55:31Z 2022 book ONIX_20221014_9781350275973_213 9781350275973 9781350275966 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58882 eng Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781350275966.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350275980 10.5040/9781350275980 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350275973 9781350275966 Bloomsbury Academic 256 London open access
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This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children’s reading development is affected by their home setting, and how this sense of place influences textual interpretation of the books they read. Based on qualitative research and structured around interviews with twelve participants, Space, Place and Children's Reading Development focuses on the digital maps and artistic renderings these readers were asked to create of a place (real or imagined) that they felt reflected their literate youth, and the discussions that followed about these maps and their evolution as readers. Analysing the participant’s responses, Margaret Mackey looks at the rich insights offered about the impact on childhood stability after experiences such as migration; the "reading spaces" children make based on their social relationships and domestic spheres; the creation of "textual spaces" and the significance of the recurring motif of forests in the participants’ maps; the importance of the Harry Potter novels; the basis of life-long reading habits; psychological spaces and whether readers visualize when they read. Blending theoretical perspectives on reading from many disciplines with the personal experiences of readers of diverse nationalities, languages, disciplinary interests, and life experiences, this is an enlightening account of the behaviors of readers, reading histories, and place-based reader responses to literature. By building greater understanding about the broad and subtle processes that enable people to read, this study refines the kind of questions we ask about reading and moves towards developing a multidisciplinary language for the study and discussion of reading practices in contemporary times. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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