- Title
- Using a reading club to help grade 4 boys, in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to position themselves as readers
- Creator
- Jansen, Lincoln Lee
- Subject
- Boys -- Books and reading -- Saudi Arabia
- Subject
- Reading -- Sex differences -- Saudi Arabia Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Saudi Arabia Group reading -- Saudi Arabia Reading (Elementary) -- Saudi Arabia
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/42285
- Identifier
- vital:36642
- Description
- Widespread research exists about the challenges of getting boys to read and the gap in reading performance between boys and girls. Using a case study design within a qualitative approach, this study investigated whether engagement in a reading club could help boys in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to position themselves as readers. The literature review examined factors that hindered or advanced reading and the reading development of boys, particular in the Arab-Muslim context. Two theoretical frameworks underpin this study: Social Learning Theory which allowed for reading engagement of a social nature and Third Space Theory which enabled this engagement bringing together the in and out of school literacy practices. Grade 4 students at a school in Saudi Arabia were invited to partake in a 45 minute after-school reading club for 12 consecutive weeks. Participatory Visual Methodologies and a Reflective journal were used to generate data. Participants were asked to make drawings to express how they felt about reading in different languages and drawings to express how they felt about reading English books in a reading club. Drawings accompanied by verbal feedback along with the reflective journal notes were analysed using thematic analysis. Results from this study showed that a reading club serving as a socially supportive space does help boys in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to position themselves as readers.
- Format
- xiv, 183 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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