Natalia Kucirkova & Teresa Cremin 
Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age 
Mapping Reader Engagement

What does it mean to become a reader? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging children in reading for pleasure in the 21st century? This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation, multiculturalism and datafication. Raising the next generation of engaged readers requires knowledge of the enduring characteristics of engagement and markers of quality in books and e-books. In addition, in order to develop new insights into children’s experience of reading on and off screen, nuanced understandings of psychological and socio-cultural research are offered. The cross-disciplinary examination integrates key research from educational psychology, new literacies, multimodality and socio-cultural perspectives and explores consequences for practice. An authoritative guide – it invites graduates, researchers and teachers to participate in the authors’ interdisciplinary dialogue about reading for pleasure.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures

Chapter One: Mapping the terrain

Chapter Two: Reading for pleasure in the digital era

Chapter Three: The personal and the affective

Chapter Four: The personal entangled

Chapter Five: Reading for pleasure pedagogy

Chapter Six: Reciprocal reading communities

Chapter Seven: Readers’ identities

Chapter Eight: Documenting volitional reading

Chapter Nine: Revisiting the journey

References

Om författaren

Teresa Cremin is Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University, UK.  An ex-teacher and teacher educator, her research focuses on teachers’ literate identities and practices, children’s volitional reading and writing and creative pedagogies. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the RSA and the English Association, Teresa co-edits the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity.  Recent edited /authored books include ‘Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing’; ‘Storytelling in Early Childhood’; ‘Researching Literacy Lives’ and ‘Building Communities of Engaged Readers’ (Routledge). Teresa leads a professional user-community website based on her research into volitional reading. https://researchrichpedagogies.org/research/reading-for-pleasure