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Space, Place, and Children's Reading Development - Mapping the Connections (Hardcover)
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Space, Place, and Children's Reading Development - Mapping the Connections (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature
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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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