Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social class in Singapore, one of the top scorers on the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) tests, and questions the rhetoric of social change that does not take into account local spaces and practices. This comparative study of reading practices in an elite school and a government school in Singapore draws on practice and spatial perspectives to provide critical insight into how taken-for-granted practices and spaces of reading can be in fact unacknowledged spaces of inequity. Acknowledging the role of social class in shaping reading education is a start to reconfiguring current practices and spaces for more effective and equitable reading practices. This book shows how using localized, contextualized approaches sensitive to the home, school, national and global contexts can lead to more targeted policy and practice transformation in the area of reading instruction and intervention.Chapters in the book include:• Becoming a Reader: Home-School Connections• Singaporean Boys Constructing Global Literate Selves: School-Nation Connections• Levelling the Reading Gap: Socio-Spatial PerspectivesThe book will be relevant to literacy scholars and educators, library science researchers and sociologists interested in the intersection of class and literacy practices in the 21st century.
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This comparative study of reading practices in Singapore, brings a fresh theoretical approach to the study of reading practices by mobilizing critical spatial theory and unearths previously unacknowledged spaces of (in)equity in reading practices and reconfiguring these spaces for intervention.
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1. Acknowledgements2. Preface3. Introduction: Social Class, Cultural Capital, and Reading4. Becoming a Reader: Home-School Connections5. Singaporean Boys Constructing Global Literate Selves: School-Nation Connections6. Levelling the Reading Gap: Socio-Spatial Perspectives7. Conclusion: The Space and Practice of Reading8. Appendix9. References10. Index
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ISBN
9781138365766
Publisert
2018-08-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
270 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
130

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Chin Ee Loh is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.