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Situated Readers in Digital Times: Understanding the Role of Place in the Development of Contemporary Literate Awareness
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SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: The research explores how today's screen-oriented young adults perceive the local and situated nature of their early literate development.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS: How do contemporary Canadian young adults articulate their childhood experiences of landscape and local geography, real and/or fictional? How do they understand the influence on their literacy achievements of their early local sense of the world and of text, developed in their "first places"? This project will study how the abstract achievement of literary understanding is pursued and enacted in a specific place and time.
METHOD: Using a custom designed app to explore tacit factors that often evade scrutiny but are crucial to literate development, I will investigate how readers perceive their formative literacy experiences in a particular space.
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- 2014-10-13
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- Research Material
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- © Mackey, Margaret. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2023.