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What do Boys and Girls Read?: An Investigation into Reading Habits with Some Suggestions about the Teaching of Literature in Secondary and Senior Schools (Routledge Library Editions: Literacy) - Softcover

Jenkinson, A. J.

 
9780815373902: What do Boys and Girls Read?: An Investigation into Reading Habits with Some Suggestions about the Teaching of Literature in Secondary and Senior Schools (Routledge Library Editions: Literacy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0815373902 ISBN 13: 9780815373902
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Originally published in 1940. This book studies the facts regarding the actual reading of children aged 12 to 15 years, but is no mere compendium. It analyses the number and sorts of newspapers, books, magazines, poems and plays which are read during one month by boys and girls in senior and secondary schools, either in school or at home. The children's characteristic tastes and the changes in their tastes as they grow from 12 to 15 are clearly set out. The author identifies that the teacher's main function should be to supply and open up an ample range of literature suitable to the given age and that private reading in school is the realm where the teacher may exert the most exemplary influence. An excellent insight into the history of education.

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A. J. Jenkinson

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0815373902
ISBN 13 
9780815373902
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
298