One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography Contributor(s): Mackey, Margaret (Author), Seelinger Trites, Roberta (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1772120391 ISBN-13: 9781772120394 Publisher: University of Alberta Press OUR PRICE: $65.33 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Readers - Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy - Education | Non-formal Education |
Dewey: 418.4 |
LCCN: 2015298957 |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 7.5" W x 9.8" (2.60 lbs) 584 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium--print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange--means that it may transfer into new times and new places." --From the Introduction Margaret Mackey draws together memory, textual criticism, social analysis, and reading theory in an extraordinary act of self-study. In One Child Reading, she makes a singular contribution to our understanding of reading and literacy development. Seeking a deeper sense of what happens when we read, Mackey revisited the texts she read, viewed, listened to, and wrote as she became literate in the 1950s and 1960s in St. John's, Newfoundland. This tremendous sweep of reading included school texts, knitting patterns, musical scores, and games, as well as hundreds of books. The result is not a memoir, but rather a deftly theorized exploration of how a reader is constructed. One Child Reading is an essential book for librarians, classroom teachers, those involved in literacy development in both scholarly and practical ways, and all serious readers. |