Men de kanske inte läser på samma sätt som flickor. Charles London skriver spännande om pojkars läsning i Huffington Post
Boys don’t read. Except when they do.
The fact is that boys are reading. Just like girls, boys are hungry for stories that speak to them, that excite their imaginations and reflect their experiences. They are hungry for information to help them make sense of the world, or achieve a goal or just to geek-out on whatever is holding their attention at that moment. How could I read about the weight of elephant poop and not feel the ground shaking under a stampede of massive beasts or giggle at a pile of poop twice my size? How could I battle a spider-shooting monster heart on the last level of CONTRA, and not dream up my own elaborate monsters to battle?
Boys today are consuming more text than at any time in human history. Adults simply are not valuing the reading that boys are doing. Teachers, librarians, writers like me, and even boys themselves, have privileged the literary novel above all other forms of literacy.
A researcher at the University of Ontario recently looked into the reading lives of boys and found that almost all of the boys in her study described the reading they enjoyed, just like young Matt De La Peña and I did — game manuals, fact books, graphic novels, sports magazines — as “not really reading.”
As Professor Thomas Newkirk observed in his groundbreaking 2002 book, Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy and Popular Culture, “Our students are awash in narratives — they are dexterous channel surfers…”
He argues passionately that schools need to broaden the tent of “what counts and does not count as a valid literacy activity,” inviting so-called ‘low culture’ into the classroom alongside ‘great literature’ and showing that the interests, needs, and tastes of boys are valued and have a place in a reading life.
När delegationen för jämställdhet i skolan talar om pojkarnas antipluggkultur känns det som ett eko från en svunnen tid. Vi behöver diskutera vad läsning är och vilka texter som räknas!
Små barn möter bokstäver på ett annat sätt. Jag har gjort två filmer som ger lite perspektiv på läsning utanför skolan.
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