Dr. Margaret Gregson; Yvonne Hillier; Professor Gert Biesta; Dr. Sam Duncan; Lawrence Nixon; Trish Spedding; Pau Wakeling Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2015) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Dr. Margaret Gregson; Yvonne Hillier; Professor Gert Biesta; Dr. Sam Duncan; Lawrence Nixon; Trish Spedding; Pau Wakeling Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2015) Kovakantinen kirja
Margaret Gregson; Sam Duncan; Kevin Brosnan; Jay Derrick; Gary Husband; Lawrence Nixon; Trish Spedding; Rachel Stubley Taylor&Francis Ltd (Sales) (2020) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
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.