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| author | Loh, Chin Ee |
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| contents | Levelling the Reading Gap: A Socio-spatial Study of School Libraries and Reading in Singapore Loh, Chin Ee Foreign Countries School Libraries Reading Achievement Achievement Gap Social Class Politics of Education Intervention Educational Policy Educational Practices Case Studies Space Utilization Interior Design Comparative Analysis This article takes a comparative socio-spatial approach at the intersection of social class and reading politics to provide a fresh way of examining school reading policies and practices, unearthing previously hidden spaces of inequity for reading intervention. The juxtaposition of two nested case studies in Singapore, one of an elite all-boys' school and another of a co-educational government school with students in different academic tracks, revealed inequitable practices, specifically in the designs and uses of school library spaces between schools serving different social classes. The study argues that attempts to design reading interventions should move away from the view of student-as-problem to structure-as-problem in order to discover new perspectives for reading intervention. Additionally, this study demonstrates how foregrounding social class in educational research is necessary for effective design of educational strategies that aim to transform education and society by narrowing the gap between students from different social classes. |
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| spellingShingle | Levelling the Reading Gap: A Socio-spatial Study of School Libraries and Reading in Singapore Loh, Chin Ee Foreign Countries School Libraries Reading Achievement Achievement Gap Social Class Politics of Education Intervention Educational Policy Educational Practices Case Studies Space Utilization Interior Design Comparative Analysis Levelling the Reading Gap: A Socio-spatial Study of School Libraries and Reading in Singapore Loh, Chin Ee Foreign Countries School Libraries Reading Achievement Achievement Gap Social Class Politics of Education Intervention Educational Policy Educational Practices Case Studies Space Utilization Interior Design Comparative Analysis This article takes a comparative socio-spatial approach at the intersection of social class and reading politics to provide a fresh way of examining school reading policies and practices, unearthing previously hidden spaces of inequity for reading intervention. The juxtaposition of two nested case studies in Singapore, one of an elite all-boys' school and another of a co-educational government school with students in different academic tracks, revealed inequitable practices, specifically in the designs and uses of school library spaces between schools serving different social classes. The study argues that attempts to design reading interventions should move away from the view of student-as-problem to structure-as-problem in order to discover new perspectives for reading intervention. Additionally, this study demonstrates how foregrounding social class in educational research is necessary for effective design of educational strategies that aim to transform education and society by narrowing the gap between students from different social classes. |
| title | Levelling the Reading Gap: A Socio-spatial Study of School Libraries and Reading in Singapore |
| topic | Foreign Countries School Libraries Reading Achievement Achievement Gap Social Class Politics of Education Intervention Educational Policy Educational Practices Case Studies Space Utilization Interior Design Comparative Analysis |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1088281 |