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Where is the critical in literacy?: Tracing performances of literature reading, readers and non-readers in educational practice

Publicerad:2019-01-29
Uppdaterad:2019-04-15

Ett av resultaten i Elin Sundström Sjödins avhandling visar att skolan har möjlighet att använda litteraturläsning som en kritisk plats där elever kan utvecklas, och därmed minska risken för marginalisering.

Författare

Elin Sundström Sjödin

Handledare

Professor Ninni Wahlström, Linnéuniversitetet Professor Johan Öhman, Örebro universitet Professor Greger Andersson, Örebro universitet

Opponent

Professor Lalitha Vasudevan, Columbia University

Disputerat vid

Örebro universitet

Disputationsdag

2019-01-18

Titel (eng)

Where is the critical in literacy?: Tracing performances of literature reading, readers and non-readers in educational practice

Institution

Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

Where is the critical in literacy?: Tracing performances of literature reading, readers and non-readers in educational practice

In many instances in society, educational and other, literature reading is emphasised as something that develops persons in positive ways. The present thesis explores this claim in relation to literature reading in educational practices. By tracing how values and critical aspects of reading are enacted, the purpose is both to problematize taken-for-granted truth claims about literature reading and to develop an understanding of the elements involved when reading, readers and critical aspects of reading are created. The studies focus on different educational practices; a teacher’s narrative about grading, information brochures about reading to children and the policy and practice of a reading project at special residential homes for detained youth in Sweden. In these practices, the thesis explores where and when the critical takes place, in what constellations and with what consequences. The thesis draws on critical literacy, where reading is regarded as taking action and having self-empowering potential. However, with help of a pragmatic and material semiotic approach, the investigations steps away from what is taken for granted about reading and about what critical means, and instead reading, readers and the critical are analysed as transactional effects.

The studies show how students can be placed at risk by rationales for reading literature that construct and establish them as lacking of culture or as literacy inadequate. The thesis further shows that the critical in literacy can be ambivalent as well as multiple, and it can be enacted by both human, discursive and material actors.

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