One Child Reading - My Auto-Bibliography (Paperback)

"The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium-print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange-means that it may transfer into new times and new places." -From the Introduction Margaret Mackey draws together memory, textual criticism, social analysis, and reading theory in an extraordinary act of self-study. In One Child Reading, she makes a singular contribution to our understanding of reading and literacy development. Seeking a deeper sense of what happens when we read, Mackey revisited the texts she read, viewed, listened to, and wrote as she became literate in the 1950s and 1960s in St. John's, Newfoundland. This tremendous sweep of reading included school texts, knitting patterns, musical scores, and games, as well as hundreds of books. The result is not a memoir, but rather a deftly theorized exploration of how a reader is constructed. One Child Reading is an essential book for librarians, classroom teachers, those involved in literacy development in both scholarly and practical ways, and all serious readers.

General

Imprint:	University of Alberta Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	March 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Margaret Mackey
Foreword by:	Roberta Seelinger Trites
Dimensions:	254 x 191 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	584
ISBN-13:	978-1-77212-039-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Literacy Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
LSN:	1-77212-039-1
Barcode:	9781772120394

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