Reading circles, novels and adult reading development /
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| Author / Creator: | Duncan, Sam. |
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| 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 |
| 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 individual and a communal act and investigates the relationship between literature and literacy development, practice and pedagogy (including a reassessment of the controversial approaches of reading aloud and phonics for adults). Sam Duncan reviews a case study of an adult reading circle in a large London further education college and identifies the wider implications for the teaching and learning of adult emergent reading, for the use and understanding of reading circles and for how we understand the novel reading experience more broadly. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441172334 1441172335 9781280123801 128012380X 9781441107589 1441107584 9781472530141 |