Reading circles, novels and adult reading development /

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Author / Creator:Duncan, Sam.
Imprint:London : Continuum International Pub., 2012.
Description:1 online resource (241 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11146033
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ISBN:9781441172334
1441172335
9781280123801
128012380X
9781441107589
1441107584
9781472530141
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Adult literacy teachers are constantly searching for effective, engaging and distinctly adult ways to develop adult emergent reading and, for at least the past two hundred years, adults have formed themselves into reading circles to read and discuss novels on a weekly or monthly basis. Why then are reading circles rarely used, or studied, in formal adult literacy provision? This book explores adult reading development, novel reading and reading circles in the context of a wider examination of reading pedagogies and practices in the English-speaking world. It discusses reading as both an indivi.
Other form:Print version: Duncan, Sam. Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development. London : Continuum International Publishing, ©2012 9781441173157