Children, Literacy and Ethnicity [electronic resource] : Reading Identities in the Primary School /
Scherer, Lexie.author.
Mainstream narratives suggest Black and African Caribbean children, white working class children, and boys, are 'failing' to learn to read. This book investigates intersections between race, class and gender in the picture of the 'poor reader', starting with young children's voices. What is the place of home learning in the story of children learning- or failing to learn to read? What do we learn about children's identity formation as they engage with books? Social science has not focused on reading as a social practice in the lives of children, starting with their perspectives, and this book fills a major gap. Policy and teachers' discourses are well represented in the literature; children's experiences of reading are not. This book not only shows the complex meanings children make of reading, but also that through consulting pupil voice it is possible to explore different issues around reading than those in adult-led debates.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Mainstream narratives suggest Black and African Caribbean children, white working class children, and boys, are 'failing' to learn to read. This book investigates intersections between race, class and gender in the picture of the 'poor reader', starting with young children's voices. What is the place of home learning in the story of children learning- or failing to learn to read? What do we learn about children's identity formation as they engage with books? Social science has not focused on reading as a social practice in the lives of children, starting with their perspectives, and this book fills a major gap. Policy and teachers' discourses are well represented in the literature; children's experiences of reading are not. This book not only shows the complex meanings children make of reading, but also that through consulting pupil voice it is possible to explore different issues around reading than those in adult-led debates.
Setting the scene on children's reading -- Children and reading : mapping literacy -- Research and fieldwork at Three Chimneys School -- The child and reading : narratives of literacy competence -- The materiality of the book -- A politics of identity : narraties of migration, place, and faith -- Race, and the embodiment of difference -- A reflection on children, reading, and identity.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Education.
Sociolinguistics.
Literacy.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Education, general.
Sociolinguistics.
Literacy.