Voicing resistance: Adolescent boys and the cultural practice of leisure reading
Journal article
Hamston, Julie and Love, Kristina. (2005). Voicing resistance: Adolescent boys and the cultural practice of leisure reading. Discourse Studies: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk. 26(2), pp. 183 - 202. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596300500143161
Authors | Hamston, Julie and Love, Kristina |
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Abstract | This article describes a theoretically informed methodology for eliciting the voices of adolescent boys identified by their teachers and parents as reluctant leisure time readers. Similar methods have also been used to draw out the voices of the boys’ parents to understand their efforts to guide and maintain their sons’ literacy practices, within the context of one middle class Australian school community. The concept of “voice” in our research of boys as capable but differently committed leisure time readers is informed by a socio-cultural theory that foregrounds the processes of enculturation, appropriation, and agency as fundamental to identity formation. In this regard the varied ways in which the boys in the study have taken up the reading practices valued in their families is illustrative of the mutuality of individual agency and cultural processes. In describing both the theoretical and conceptual framing of a methodology designed to investigate in particular those boys who have resisted their families’ reading dispositions we hope to highlight how individuals struggle to construct new values within patterns of cultural practice. |
Year | 2005 |
Journal | Discourse Studies: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk |
Journal citation | 26 (2), pp. 183 - 202 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. |
ISSN | 1461-4456 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/01596300500143161 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-27844485749 |
Page range | 183 - 202 |
Research Group | School of Education |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/872w7/voicing-resistance-adolescent-boys-and-the-cultural-practice-of-leisure-reading
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