Leading Questions: Interpretative Guidelines in Contemporary Popular Reading Culture

2011 ◽  
pp. 159-180
Author(s):  
Anna S. Ivy
Keyword(s):  
Reading Culture

scholarly journals Books, Scribes, and Cultures of Reading in the Shepherd of Hermas

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
TRAVIS W. PROCTOR
Keyword(s):  
Book Production ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Reading Culture

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.

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

Libri ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Not Just Book Week: Developing a Reading Culture at Mill Park Secondary College

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-281
Author(s):  
Judith Way
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Reading Culture

Establishing a culture where reading is valued as much as participation in sporting teams is not easy. At Mill Park Secondary School a programme has been underway for three years and appears to be making strong progress in cultural change. This presentation outlines three initiatives that are working well together. They target teachers, students and parents and are supplemented by Reading Cup team activities and Reading Challenge activities for individuals.

scholarly journals The Role of Malawi National Library in Promoting Reading Culture among Children

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezra Kapachika
Keyword(s):  
Civic Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Library Service ◽  
National Library ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Reading Culture ◽  
Teacher Librarians

Malawi as a developing country where people are striving for new technologies, it has been observed that reading culture is being left aside as people are turning their minds away from books. This is so despite the presence of the Malawi National Library Service which has the promotion of reading culture amongst children as one of their fundamental aims. Therefore, this has prompted the researcher to conduct a study aiming at finding the role of the Malawi National Library service (MNLS) in their work of promoting reading culture. The objectives of the study are to find out services that are used by MNLS to promote reading culture amongst Malawian children, to find out strategies that are used by MNLS to motivate children to read books and to identify the challenges that are met by the MNLS in the process of promoting reading culture. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative research methods and the targeted population was the Malawi National Library Service Staff, library users especially children and teacher librarians from schools that are beneficiaries of MNLS services. The study recommends that The Malawi National Library Service should consider including more varying services that aim at promoting reading culture, MNLS should also make sure that storytelling, reading aloud and other strategies should be conducted by staff or hired personnel who is well conversant with the way children can be motivated, the MNLS should consider having a civic education with parents through meetings, workshops or seminars to assist the parents to understand the benefit of allowing their children to visit the library.

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