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Stig-Börje Asplund; Birgitta Ljung Egeland; Christina Olin-Scheller – Language and Education, 2024
This paper explores young people's narratives about BookTok and volitional reading. The data consist of narrative interviews with eight students (all girls) from two different classes in year 1 and year 2 of a preparatory programme for higher education, that is, students aged 17-18 years old. Using the framework of Wenger's notion of communities…
Descriptors: Social Media, Reading, Communities of Practice, Personal Narratives
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Scholes, Laura; Asplund, Stig-Börje – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Drawing on interviews we explore the centrality of belonging to rural places, embedded within time, in shaping life as a male reader, regardless of country of origin, or generation. Place theory explored the assemblages of spaces important for 6 boys (10-11 year-olds) from Australia and 6 men (25 year-olds and 60 year-olds) from Sweden in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Males, Identification (Psychology)