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Children, Literacy and Ethnicity, 1st ed. 2016
Reading Identities in the Primary School
Author: Scherer Lexie
Language: English
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Keywords
Children; Literacy; Ethnicity; Reading; Schools; children; education; identity; language; linguistics; migration; primary school; social science; sociolinguistics; sociology; teaching
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198 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Hardback
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This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class. Based on research using a participative, innovative design with young children, issues of identity, belonging and classroom hierarchies are explored in complex and poignant ways by the children.
1. Setting the Scene on Children's Reading
2. Children and Reading: Mapping Literacy
3. Research and Fieldwork at Three Chimneys School
4. The Child and Reading: Narratives of Literacy Competence
5. The Materiality of the Book
6. A Politics of Identity: Narratives of Migration, Place and Faith
7. Race, and the Embodiment of Difference
8. A Reflection on Children, Reading and Identity
Alexandra Scherer is Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research focuses on exploring children's literacies, their identity work and their agency.
