Mediation and Children's Reading
Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Mediation and Children's Reading
Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
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This collection of essays explores the cultural significance of children’s reading by analyzing a series of Anglo-American case studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Marked by historical continuity and technological change, children’s reading proves to be a phenomenon with broad influence, one that shapes both the development of individual readers and wider social values. The essays in this volume capture such complexity by invoking the conception of “mediation” to approach children’s reading as a site of interaction among individual people, material texts, and institutional networks. Featuring a range of scholarly perspectives from the disciplines of literature, education, graphic design, and library and information science, this collection uncovers both the intricacies and wider stakes of children’s reading. The books, public programs, and archives that focus explicitly on children’s interests and needs are powerful arenas that give expression to the key ideological investments of a culture.
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Table of Contents
Anne Marie Hagen
Part I – Historical Reading Practices
Chapter 1. “Socio-Economic Status and Varied Freedoms in Eighteenth-Century Childhood Reading”
Elspeth Jajdelska
Chapter 2. “Enlightenment Reading Lists: Domestic Curricula and the Organisation of Knowledge in Novels by Women”
Rebecca Davies
Part II – Programs and Collections
Chapter 3. “Mediating the Archives: Child Readers and Their Books in Special Collections”
Suzan Alteri
Chapter 4. “Bookbug: The Mediating Effect of Book Gifting in Scotland”
Emma Davidson & Tracy Cooper
Part III - Textual and Material Strategies
Chapter 5. “Reading Information: Using Graphic Language to Enhance Engagement with Children's Books”
Sue Walker
Chapter 6. “Mediating with Metafiction: Rethinking What Counts about Reading with Parents, Using Picturebooks”
Jennifer Farrar
Part IV – Texts, Worlds and Mediation
Chapter 7. “Mediating the Act of Reading through Picturebooks
Product details
| Published | Mar 29 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781611463279 |
| Imprint | Lehigh University Press |
| Illustrations | 2 b/w illustrations; |
| Series | Studies in Text & Print Culture |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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