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Teresa Cremin; Laura Scholes – Language and Education, 2024
Compelling international evidence illustrates the potential of reading for pleasure for enhancing student reading achievement along with other learning and wellbeing outcomes. Yet profound challenges exist for nations seeking to encompass attention to students' volitional reading. In this paper we critically review the growing research evidence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Recreational Reading
Jennifer Farrar; Alyson Simpson – Literacy, 2024
Reading for Pleasure (RfP) acknowledges the importance of reader engagement and the role of the teacher as a reader of children's literature. The foundational work of the Teachers as Readers (TARs) programme successfully illustrated the impact of RfP activities on student learning. Previous studies of teachers' reader identities have shown a…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Teacher Role, Childrens Literature, Preservice Teacher Education
Spencer, Stephanie – History of Education, 2021
Historians of education are well placed to engage in applied historical approaches providing authoritative evidence of the past to inform policy and practice. This article is based on the presidential keynote delivered at the History of Education Society (UK) annual conference in 2019. As such it reflects on possible future directions for the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading
Jess Nailer; Christine Robinson; Dee O'Connor – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
Australian children read for pleasure less and less as they move through primary school, with a noticeable decline emerging in the middle primary school years (Scholastic, 2019). It has also been found that "reading for pleasure at school" has become de-prioritised in primary schools, with greater emphasis in the broader literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Interests
Collins, Vanessa J.; Dargan, Isaac W.; Walsh, Rosalind L.; Merga, Margaret K. – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
A whole school (K-12) "Reading for Pleasure" program was implemented at an independent girls' school in Sydney, Australia. This paper reports on the results of a teacher survey conducted one year into the implementation of the program. Qualitative data were collected from 105 teachers on the perceived benefits and challenges of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools
Vanden Dool, Carly; Simpson, Alyson – Literacy, 2021
Research indicates a powerful correlation between students' reading enjoyment, motivation and achievement. This Australian case study investigates how reading for pleasure (RfP) approaches are demonstrated in the teaching of reading in a Stage 1 (6-year-old to 7-year-old students) classroom. The methodology was designed to mirror aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading, Early Childhood Education, Reading Instruction
Merga, Margaret K.; McRae, Michelle; Rutherford, Leonie – English in Education, 2018
Young people's frequency of engagement in reading books for pleasure markedly decreases as they move through the schooling years, reducing their exposure to this beneficial literacy practice. Young people's perceptions of the value of reading can be socially mediated, and positive perception of the value of reading is associated with frequency of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Adolescents, Books, Recreational Reading
Merga, Margaret K.; Ferguson, Catherine – Australian Journal of Education, 2021
Reading for pleasure is an undervalued but highly beneficial practice conferring a range of educative and socio-emotional advantages. School librarians may play a key role in supporting reading for pleasure and associated literature advocacy; however, relatively little is known about how reading for pleasure may be valued within the job…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Role Perception, Value Judgment
Underwood, Catherine – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2021
The most recent OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey enables educators, policy makers and the wider community to compare Australian students with each other, as well as with their counterparts across the world. PISA measures the extent to which 15-year-old students near the end of compulsory education have acquired the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Reading, Student Attitudes
Merga, Margaret Kristin; Mat Roni, Saiyidi – Australian Journal of Education, 2018
Fostering children's engagement in regular recreational reading beyond independent skill acquisition is beneficial to promote continued literacy engagement. Regular recreational reading is associated with both literacy skill acquisition and maintenance across the life span. Children's perceptions of the importance and value of reading can…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Reading Attitudes, Values, Recreational Reading
Merga, Margaret K. – English in Australia, 2020
Although teacher librarians play a role as literacy and literature educators in schools, little research attention is given to this role. In addition, the use of book discussion in school libraries to enhance reading engagement is not often closely considered as an educative practice. This paper draws on qualitative research findings from…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Learner Engagement, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Hempel-Jorgensen, Amelia; Cremin, Teresa; Harris, Diane; Chamberlain, Liz – Literacy, 2018
New research findings are presented in this paper, responding to a significant knowledge gap about the role of pedagogy in tackling persistent educational inequalities. The paper examines the potential of reading for pleasure (RfP) pedagogy to disrupt 'pedagogy of poverty' in low socio-economic (SES) schools and to enable children to reap the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary Education, Recreational Reading
Thomson, Sue – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2018
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is a large-scale comparison of the reading performance of Year 4 students in 50 countries, and Year 4 was chosen because it is the point in schooling where most students transition from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn'. As the essential nature of their relationship with reading…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Achievement Tests
McKnight, Lucinda – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
This article moves beyond book-based school 'wide reading' to propose constellations of multimodal media, including music videos, fashion parades, literary works, online games and material artefacts, along with associated pedagogies, as sponsors of pleasure. The article, based on empirical research with teachers in an Australian secondary school,…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Popular Culture
Merga, Margaret Kristin; Mason, Shannon – Australian Journal of Education, 2019
A supportive school reading culture is an educative context in which there is availability, opportunity, encouragement and support for reading. Little is known about whether Australian schools actively foster reading cultures that are supportive of reading for pleasure. In their role as reading advocates, teacher librarians may be uniquely…
Descriptors: School Culture, Recreational Reading, Reading Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes