Naming the unnamed: Reading culture into women's stories of recovery

In this article, I analyse how the Shepherd of Hermas constructs an ancient Christian reading culture through concurrent portrayals of Christian reading, copying and book production. I argue that, by portraying its protagonist Hermas as an idealised reader, scribe and auditor, the Shepherd constructs an early Christian reading culture that authenticates Hermas's role as prophet, activates the textual dissemination of the Shepherd and ritualises the practice of Christian auditory ‘reading’. The article closes with ‘Hermas the freedman’, which considers how Hermas's self-presentation as a formerly enslaved person may have connections to the Shepherd's centralisation of ancient reading cultures.

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An assessment of the use of workbook on the reading culture and performance of students in integrated science in Abeokuta, Nigeria

African Research Review ◽

10.4314/afrrev.v3i5.51162 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

Author(s):

H.A Bodunde ◽

B.R.O Kelan

Keyword(s):

Integrated Science ◽

Reading Culture ◽

And Performance

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Availability of Print Resources as a Factor Affecting Reading Culture of Secondary School Students in Edo State, Nigeria

Libri ◽

10.1515/libri-2018-0160 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 70 (2) ◽

pp. 157-167

Author(s):

Christopher Osaretin Ukpebor

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Local Governments ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Survey Design ◽

Weighted Average ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

School Students ◽

Poor Reading ◽

Edo State ◽

Reading Culture

AbstractStudies have shown that Nigerians have a poor reading culture which could be as a result of several factors including unavailability of print resources. Literature has revealed that the quality of reading by secondary school students in Edo State was regrettably on the decline and that inadequate use of print resources was a major factor. The descriptive survey design of correlational type was adopted for the study. Stratified multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in selecting participants for this study. Fifty percent was used to select nine local governments, 10 % to select public and private secondary schools from the already selected nine local governments, making a total of 65 schools. From each of the selected 65 schools, a sampling fraction of 11 % was used to select a total of 895 students for the study. A questionnaire was used for students while an interview checklist was used for school principals in justification of the students’ responses. Regression analysis (at 0.05 level of significance) was used to analyse the data. Findings revealed that secondary school students in Edo State have print resources readily available, while secondary school students had a poor reading culture with the weighted average of 3.06. The effect of print resources (β = 0.141; p < 0.05) in predicting students’ reading culture was significant. Conclusively, the study showed that secondary school students in Edo State have a poor reading culture irrespective of the availability of print resources.

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