eprintid: 10020608
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle
title: A study of twelve-to thirteen-year-olds who are habitual, committed readers : What,how and why they read, and the social and cultural factors which shape their development
ispublished: unpub
divisions: B14
note: Some content has been redacted due to third party rights or other legal issues and is labelled as such in the document.
abstract: This study explores how the readership of twelve- to thirteen-year-old readers who regularly read for a variety of purposes and pleasures is constructed. It offers a counterweight to the largely quantitative surveys of young people's reading which tend to cluster readers in broad categories; instead, it concentrates on individual readers' trajectories as they develop over time in the spaces created by their interrelation with trajectories of other readers and texts. The aim is to create a rich and complex description of readers showing the effects of different social interactions and cultural values on the changing dynamics of their reading. 
The research was initiated within a high-achieving English class as they moved from Year 8 into Year 9 in a rural comprehensive school. Four research methods were designed to generate data: students created collages to chart formative events in their reading histories, engaged in semi-structured small-group interviews conducted by the researcher, carried out semi-structured interviews with a parent, carer or grandparent and wrote journals during their independent reading of a selfselected book. Data analysis included a variety of procedures to enable close, critical reading of the material generated and the tracing of readers' trajectories. 
The study is intended to make an original contribution to the understanding of all those concerned with young people's reading in the context of secondary education in particular by bringing together different theoretical perspectives - not only the social and cultural but also the spatial and historical - exploring insights and tensions arising from their juxtaposition. Because of the deliberate focus on the distinctiveness of individual readers, my intention is not to produce generalisable results but a reconfiguration of material which offers fresh perspectives on young readers and a methodology which will be replicable in other contexts.
date: 2011
date_type: completed
official_url: http://ethos.bl.uk/ProcessSearch.do?query=536516
oa_status: green
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: restricted
pages: 253
institution: Institute of Education, University of London
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle;      (2011)    A study of twelve-to thirteen-year-olds who are habitual, committed readers : What,how and why they read, and the social and cultural factors which shape their development.                   Doctoral thesis , Institute of Education, University of London.     Green open access   
 
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