Snapshots of a Literacy Landscape: Investigating the Role of the Literacy Event in Children’s Lives
Abstract
This dissertation describes the literacy landscape of a particular group of children by drawing on their photographic responses to a research brief. It explores the reading choices made child members of a specific youth organisation – ‘The Woodcraft Folk’. Exploring how children negotiate a multi-media cultural landscape, the dissertation describes the children’s relationship to books, periodicals, computers and other child-defined literacy events to provide a picture of how literacy events occur in children’s everyday lives. Seeking to unite education studies and audience research, the work provides a model of how children begin to negotiate their relationship to culture whilst developing the mechanical skills of reading.
