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Using Supplementary Texts as Critical Companions to Enhance Adolescents’ Critical Literacy Practices in Book Club Discussions

Lightner, Sarah Campbell
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8302-8249
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150046279220399

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This study explored the ways in which seventh and eighth grade students in three small-group book discussions used and responded to Critical Companions, texts used to supplement and support students’ critical reading of young adult novels. The Critical Companions were written from the perspective of a variety of critical literary theories with the intention of raising questions around dominant ideologies and hegemonic beliefs relevant to the novels they accompanied (the focal texts). In order to examine how participants used the Critical Companions in conjunction with the focal texts, this study foregrounded the role of intertextuality in the social construction of knowledge. This study examined the cultural resources participants brought to the discussion as intertexts and how those various intertexts were highlighted or ignored during discussion. A major premise underlying this research was that intertextuality is socially constructed and that, by privileging or ignoring certain references, participants in the discussions established the cultural ideology of the book clubs.
Ian Wilkinson (Advisor)
Michelle Abate (Committee Member)
Mollie Blackburn (Committee Member)
Caroline Clark (Committee Member)
324 p.
Education; Literacy
Intertextuality; Critical Literacy; Adolescents; Book Groups

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  • Lightner, S. C. (2017). Using Supplementary Texts as Critical Companions to Enhance Adolescents’ Critical Literacy Practices in Book Club Discussions [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150046279220399

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lightner, Sarah. Using Supplementary Texts as Critical Companions to Enhance Adolescents’ Critical Literacy Practices in Book Club Discussions. 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150046279220399.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lightner, Sarah. "Using Supplementary Texts as Critical Companions to Enhance Adolescents’ Critical Literacy Practices in Book Club Discussions." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150046279220399

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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