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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“The book aims to examine the ‘taken for granted’ processes of learning to read, and these processes mainly appear to be the assessment and benchmarking systems. In this sense, Scherer explicitly shows how learning to read in school is an unspoken social, cultural and political process that makes a significant impact on children.” (Kimberly Safford, Children & Society, Vol. 33 (2), 2019)
“This book makes an important contribution to both the social science critique of education and the sociological understanding of young children’s identities formed in a multicultural and super-diverse primary school. Educationalists including school teachers and social science researchers will find their horizons broadened in this study of the ways in which minority children learn to read.” (Katharine Tyler, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children, Literacy and Ethnicity
Book Subtitle: Reading Identities in the Primary School
Authors: Lexie Scherer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137537379
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53736-2Published: 14 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53737-9Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 198
Topics: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Education, general, Sociolinguistics, Literacy