Young People Reading

Evelyn Arizpe is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.Gabrielle Cliff Hodges is former Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.

• Introduction SECTION 1 MAKING ADOLESCENT READING CHOICES VISIBLE 1 The possibilities of comics reading: Uncovering a complex and situated reading experience in Canada 2 The residue of fiction in the memory of adolescence: The potential effect of reading fiction in Turkey 3 Rivers of reading: A research method to explore young adults’ personal reading histories SECTION 2 ADOLESCENT READING IN TIMES OF CRISIS 4 Reading fears and opportunities: Researching changes over 25 years in the literacy practices of Mexican adolescents 5 Young adults’ attitudes towards reading in Lebanon 6 ‘I think I was born with a suitcase’: Blackfoot adolescent readers’ responses to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian SECTION 3 YOUNG ADULT READERS’ EXPERIENCES WITHIN AND BEYOND SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY 7 Adolescent reading habits: The effect of school activities on reading practices 8 Young people reading in Uganda: Making connections between literature and reality 9 Exploring post-16 literature in English in a Malaysian classroom: A hermeneutic phenomenological perspective 10 Pressure, pleasure and function: Malaysian undergraduates reading across boundaries in a university in England Conclusion

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