Full Description
In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educators need to engage anew with essential issues of what counts as reading, what kinds of reading matter and how to support teen reading engagement in school and out-of-school settings.
Bringing together contributions from well-known and emerging adolescent literacy researchers from different disciplinary perspectives, this edited collection consolidates contemporary research on teens' volitional print and digital reading, whether in school or out-of-school contexts. The first part of the book offers overviews of what teens are reading, followed by chapters on community support on reading and new ways of researching teen reading. With chapters from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East, the collection will offer multifaceted and complex insights into what, how and why teens read in different contexts. Reflection questions at the end of each chapter encourage readers to consider how the research can be applied in their own research, policy and practice contexts.
This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers and educators who are invested in supporting adolescent-engaged reading with evidence-based policies and strategies.
Contents
1. The reading lives of teens 2. Young people's reading in the UK 3. Student perceptions and practices when reading in print and digitally: An evolving saga 4. Why print still matters for reading in a digital age: A survey study of adolescents' gendered print and digital reading 5. Understanding Teenagers' Experiences of Reading Fiction 6. From Mahmoud Darwish to Shakespeare, Naruto to Tintin Comics: Reading Preferences and Identities of Emirati Adolescents from the UAE 7. Finding a Good Read? Strategies Australian Teenagers use to Negotiate Book Recommendations 8. Reading for Freedom, Reading for Love: Mining Students' Literate Thinking in the Figured World of Ms. Grant's Classroom 9. Creating a Community of Independent Readers in a Japanese-language Classroom 10. Empowering Teen Readers: The Role of the Teacher Librarian in Supporting Reading for Pleasure 11. New Ways of Researching Teen Reading: Do the aims of reading research, policy, and practice align with adolescents' priorities for reading? 12. "High school ruined it for me": The decline of leisure reading in adolescence and what teachers and parents can do about it 13. The #BookTok Effect: Unpacking the Impact of Identity, Social Media Community Formation, and Affective Experiences on Reading Motivation 14. The future of teens' reading lives
