The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices
Bethan Marshall · Jackie Manuel · Donna L. Pasternak · Jennifer Rowsell
Oct 2020 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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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.
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.
About the author
Bethan Marshall is Senior Lecturer at King's College London, UK, where she is Director of MA English and Education and MA Creative Arts in the Classroom.
Jacqueline Manuel is Professor of English Education and Program Director of the Master of Teaching (Secondary) at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Donna L. Pasternak is Professor of English Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation at the University of Bristol, UK.
Jacqueline Manuel is Professor of English Education and Program Director of the Master of Teaching (Secondary) at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Donna L. Pasternak is Professor of English Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation at the University of Bristol, UK.
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