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Williams, Sandra; Willis, Rachel – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
This article considers children's engagement with the "Ologies", a series of postmodern texts that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction. It follows on from a text-based analysis of the series published in this journal (22(3) 2015). Data collected from 9-12 year olds demonstrate how actual readers took up the invitation offered by…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Postmodernism
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Lee, Klaudia Hiu Yen; Patkin, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
This article uses the findings from an empirical study on Hong Kong students' reading practices as collected through face-to-face interviews on major university campuses in Hong Kong to argue for the importance of "affective" and "imaginative" engagement with literary texts if students are to develop an interest in reading.…
Descriptors: Imagination, Reading Processes, Student Centered Learning, Creativity