This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the
demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer …

Adult literacy teachers are constantly searching for effective, engaging and
distinctly'adult'ways to develop adult emergent reading and, for at least the past two hundred …

Research on reading in the lifelong-learning sector has tended to focus on the attitudes,
habits and practices of the recipients of further education (FE), or the practices of literacy …

How do videogame players who are 'by day'engaged in formal media and literacy education
understand the boundaries between playing, reading and writing in the sphere of 'Media …

In this chapter we consider how post-structuralist troublings of traditional educational
research orthodoxies might raise important questions about the way literacy and media …

Adult literacy teachers search for effective, engaging and distinctly'adult'ways to develop
adult emergent reading. Reading circles are used in adult English Language Teaching to …

In this article is described how to improve reading skills learning foreign language. This
article aims to share ideas about reading skills and reading for pleasure to see what we can …

This chapter analyses their role and impact, through the Richard Madeley and Judy
Finnigan Book Club books chosen by prison reading groups, and one book in particular …

The phenomena of the Richard & Judy Book Club would appear to offer a challenge to the
classificatory relations that define what it is to read and be a reader in the modem context …