Reading Society Research Articles

Formação de professores de Biologia e a leitura semiológica de cartuns da Revista Ciência Hoje das Crianças

A formação de professores no Brasil vem passando por contínuas e complexas transformações e têm, cada vez mais, exigido posturas atreladas ao nosso tempo. Formar jovens professores para que compreendam mensagens – de quaisquer naturezas – de forma crítica está previsto, enquanto competência profissional, em documento internacional da UNESCO, contudo, o desenvolvimento desta, remete a uma reestruturação curricular nos cursos de licenciatura em todo o país. Os cursos de licenciatura tem repertório docente para a compreensão de competências voltadas à Alfabetização Midiática e Informacional (AMI), como proposto pela UNESCO? Nossos objetivos neste trabalho de pesquisa foram: (a) investigar e apresentar concepções de professores em formação acerca de um cartum publicado em suplemento da Revista Ciência Hoje das Crianças voltado ao público infanto-juvenil e (b) apresentar uma análise semiológica estrutural de elementos imagéticos constante do mesmo cartum a partir do referencial teórico barthesiano. Os resultados sugerem que: (a) licenciados e licenciandos realizaram, em sua maioria, uma leitura sem profundidade do cartum apresentado; (b) o cartum, de modo geral, realiza por si mesmo uma “leitura de sociedade” tal qual a visão do autor que o produziu.

Book Review: Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries Founded Before 1825: Useful Knowledge and Agreeable Entertainment

Book Review: Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries Founded Before 1825: Useful Knowledge and Agreeable Entertainment

Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries Founded before 1825: Useful Knowledge and Agreeable Entertainment. By K. A. Manley

Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries Founded before 1825: Useful Knowledge and Agreeable Entertainment. By K. A. Manley

K.A. Manley, Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries Founded Before 1825: Useful Knowledge and Agreeable Entertainment

K.A. Manley, Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries Founded Before 1825: Useful Knowledge and Agreeable Entertainment

IMPROVING COMMUNITY READING INTEREST THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PUBLIC LIBRARY IN SUSUKAN VILLAGE OF PARAKAN JATI, BOJONGGEDE DISTRICT, BOGOR REGENCY, WEST JAVA

This service activity for society with title ‘Upgrading reading society’s interest with build public library in Susukan Village, District Bojong Gede, Bogor city. Will be held for 10 years by collaborate with two mitra, Karang Taruna Teenager, and women in RT 03 RW 05, Susukan Village. Mitra condition with amount of densely populated environment and middle down economic living, and dont have a public library, made this service as solution. Upgrading teenager karang taruna skill with this service go to make them as a manager and library staff, and then for women go to be a motivator and feedback source for public library development. This public general ‘Rizanmila’ has no fee (free) for everyone provide a lot of books, not only knowledge (66 books) but also religion book (38 books) and another books (29 books). It makes the total of book is 233 and go to be increase time by time. The attendant is 207 people which is dominate by kids with age range 8 till 15. Female with education range Junior High School till Senior High School. And the most favourite books is a story book, knowledge based and religion. By this condition we still need a charity a lot of books to prevent boring situation and increase the books variety in this public library. This library existence go to give a good benefit, not only for upgrading society reading interest, but also create an idea and trigger attendant creativity by activity such as culinary business, handicraft and another commercial activity in other to upgrading their business skill.

PERAN KEPALA SEKOLAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN MINAT BACA SISWA MELALUI PERPUSTAKAAN SEKOLAH

The reading interest of Indonesian people still low compared from other countries. It needs to introduce the love of reading early, so the children will have long life reading interest. In this case the school’s library should be able to nurture students into a reading society. This research is qualitative with key informant is principal and supporting informant are librarian, teachers and students of State Primary School 31 of Balai Labuh Bawah. The data were collected by using observation, interview and documentation. The results showed that the principal play an active role to increase students' reading interest through the school’s library. The role of principals are (1) increasing the students reading interest through exemplary; (2) utilizing the school’s library as a learning resource; (3) giving reward to the students who frequently visit and borrow books in school’s library; (4) increasing the books collection in school’s library; (5) making the school’s library as a convenient place for reading activities; and (6) fostering librarians through upgrading and seminar activities.

Reading Authors of the Enlightenment at the Cape of Good Hope from the late 1780s to the mid 1830s

With few exceptions, the study of intellectual traditions in South Africa generally ignores their material traces. The embodiment of ideas and languages in books, pamphlets, newspapers and other media does, however, matter. An analysis of the inventories and catalogues of private book collections, subscription libraries and book sales, of minutes of a reading society, and of newspaper articles and advertisements reveals that Enlightenment authors were not unknown at the Cape in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This article explains how their works were collected, circulated and read, unearthing the material traces of Enlightenment ideas, so that it becomes possible to source some of the Enlightenment print culture origins of Cape liberalism.

Maribor Doctor Filip Terč and his "Bee Therapy"

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in English (Abstract in English and Slovenian, Summary in Slovenian) Key words: Filip Terč (1844–1917), apimedicine, apitherapy, Styrian Beekeeping Society, Maribor National Home Abstract: Doctor Filip Terč (1844–1917), an important but little-known figure in the field of medicine and health care in Maribor and the Slovenian Lands, was besides working in a clinic also involved in beekeeping. This led him to great discoveries, for which he is nowadays considered to be a pioneer of modern apitherapy and immunology in Central Europe. He also played an important role in the field of social life; in 1878 he became chairman of the Maribor branch of the Styrian Beekeeping Society. He was also a member of the Slavic Reading Society and an influential member of the Supervisory Board of the Maribor Loan Bank, in the framework of which he financially supervised the construction of the National Home in Maribor.

Another Possible World—Reading Yuezhi Zhao, Communication and Society: Political Economy and Culture Analysis

Yuezhi Zhao is famous for her theory of communication criticism. In the western-dominated international academic circles, she is the first critical scholar of communication in mainland China. In her first Chinese monograph, “Communication and Society: Political Economy and Culture Analysis”, put forward “look east, go south”: open up a new perspective of communication research in the post-crisis era. While deeply worried about the influence of depoliticization and neoliberalism on Chinese society, she also hoped that China would be different from the development mode of western capitalism with patriotism, and put forward the insight that “another world is possible”.

Elusive Women Authors in Norwegian Nineteenth-Century Reading Societies

Which women authors were read at the ebb of the nineteenth century and around the start of the twentieth? Research on historical readership groups reveals a strikingly different picture from the one transmitted through literary histories and textbooks. Empirical data from the catalogues of Norwegian reading societies from this period form the basis of the proposed conclusions. From a feminist, scholarly point of view, it is doubly interesting to investigate the fate of female authors among female readers; hence, the main emphasis is on the book collection of the women’s reading society based in Oslo from 1874. The collections of other societies, whether male or open to both sexes, are consulted for comparison. Although the material is Norwegian, the results turn out to be comparable to those seen in other countries, not least Finland. The data presented here serve to modify the received canon of European literary history, and to invite future revisions in the reception of female authorship and of women’s place in world literature.

PENGEMBANGAN TAMAN BACAAN MASYARAKAT SEBAGAI SUMBER BELAJAR

Learning society is established and developed starting from reading community within this is in the mind, the role of Community Reading Centers (CRC) holds a strategic position in developing the community to become a reading and learning society. The Indonesian community and goverment made significant efforts to diseminate CRC through out Indonesia. This research was intended to describe the development of CRC particularly of those achieved financial assistance from the government. The research was conducted at 7 (seven) CRCs spread out in Banten Province in June through November 2011. Applying qualitative paradigm, the research collected data using observation, interview, and study document techniques. The data were analyzed qualitatively to draw conclusions and suggestions. The research findings show that the development of CRCs received the grant is not as expected. Based on the findings the research suggest the concerned institutions to intensify monitoring and supervision on the CRCs.

Reading Society: Elena Poniatowska's Children's Books in Terms of Her Body of Work

Reading Society: Elena Poniatowska's Children's Books in Terms of Her Body of Work

Implementasi Penyelenggaraan Perpustakaan Di Kabupaten Kendal

In the framework of the intellectual life of the nation, as mandated in the preamble of the Indonesia Constitution on 1945 in the fourth paragraph. The Government of the Province of Central Java has published Regulations about a Arrangement the Library, that is an activity planning, management, preservation, development, coaching and supervision of the Library. The policy was formulated to solved existing problems one of them a low interest of reading society. The purpose of the research was to find out how the Implementation of the Arrangement the Library in the District of Kendal and to know of factors support and obstacle of implementation. The method used in this research was qualitative-descriptive. Based on the results of research in the Office of Library and Regional Archives in The District Of Kendal as the main executor of Kendal government in the sector of library. That the Implementation policy of Arrangement the Library in the District of Kendal on 2014 have not been implemented maximally. Because there are still some targets achievement RPJMD library sector at Kendal in 2010-2015 has not been reached. Target performance indicators on the RPJMD yet achieved one of them is the level of library visitors. In the implementation of this policy there are still obstacles such as communications that has not been going well, limited human resources, facilities and infrastructures supporting the Library is still limited. The result of this research can be concluded that the implementation of arrangement the library in the Districtof Kendal in 2014 has not been implemented maximally. Suggestion from researcher is the Office of Library and the archive area of Kendal as implementers are expected to further improves communication in socialization of the Library and the interests of reading to the general public. Then the addition of budget to the section of Library for the procurement of non-permanent employees (npe) to fill a shortage of librarians and Library technical personnel, as well as improving infrastructure facilities of the Library.

‘A good deal of Trash’: Reading Societies, Religious Controversy and Networks of Improvement in Eighteenth‐Century Scotland

AbstractScholars generally agree that the reading societies that developed with Scottish improvement in the eighteenth century signal that country's secularisation. Yet historical evidence suggests that devotional or ‘covenantal’ reading practices, derived from Calvinist theology, persisted in reading clubs and societies, especially in rural areas, alongside the ‘emulative’ reading being encouraged by the denizens of improvement and enlightenment. This paper tracks the tensions and intersections between these two practices in the Scottish improvement network. It ends with a reading of a poem by Burns illustrating the way these reading practices intersect.

Does your body count? Embodied influences on the preferred counting direction of preschoolers

Many studies confirm that preschoolers from left-to-right reading societies count from left to right, which reflects the cultural direction of their spatial-numerical associations (SNAs). Other factors, not directly related to cultural experience, have not yet been systematically examined as potential determinants of counting direction in preschool children. In this study, we test one such determinant, i.e. whether and how counting direction is related to body-centred reference frames, such as a preferred hand in different spatial-motoric settings. We first asked preschoolers to count spontaneously. Then, we asked them to use a particular hand to count objects presented close to or far away from their bodies. An overall left-to-right counting dominance was replicated, but it was modulated by a counting hand in both tasks: Children preferred to start counting from an object ipsilateral to the hand used. This pattern increased when stimuli were in a position close to the body. We conclude that early countin...

Does your body count? Embodied influences on the preferred counting direction of preschoolers

Many studies confirm that preschoolers from left-to-right reading societies count from left to right, which reflects the cultural direction of their spatial-numerical associations (SNAs). Other factors, not directly related to cultural experience, have not yet been systematically examined as potential determinants of counting direction in preschool children. In this study, we test one such determinant, i.e. whether and how counting direction is related to body-centred reference frames, such as a preferred hand in different spatial-motoric settings. We first asked preschoolers to count spontaneously. Then, we asked them to use a particular hand to count objects presented close to or far away from their bodies. An overall left-to-right counting dominance was replicated, but it was modulated by a counting hand in both tasks: Children preferred to start counting from an object ipsilateral to the hand used. This pattern increased when stimuli were in a position close to the body. We conclude that early counting preferences of preliterate children are embodied. The SNAs which were assessed are not only related to culture but also to situated individual bodily reference frames.

KAIP ĮSIGYDAVO KNYGŲ XVIII A. SUOMIJOS IR RYTŲ PRŪSIJOS LIUTERONŲ KUNIGAI: ASMENINĖS BIBLIOTEKOS IR SAVITARPIO PAGALBA (anglų kalba)

The article strives to draw parallels between the cultural contexts of the Lutheran clergy in East Prussia, where Kristijonas Donelaitis lived, and in Finland. East Prussia was part of the Prussian and Finland part of the Swedish Kingdom. The Lutheran Protestant church was state-church in both of the realms. The German culture naturally dominated in East Prussia, but its influence in Sweden and Finland was also strong. There also are parallels in the linguistic situation in East Prussia and Finland. There was a Lithuanian-speaking minority in East Prussia and a Finnish-speaking majority in Finland, both of which were shadowed by the dominant language and culture, German and Swedish, respectively. The priest served as a link between the dominant culture and administration and the common people. Two Finnish priests, Matthias Salamnius (1640–1691) and Johan Frosterus (1720–1809) that can be compared to Donelaitis in their literary production, are presented. The existence of non-theological books in the private libraries of Finnish priests is analyzed using the data in estate inventories. Information about forms of cooperation in the distribution of books, such as book circles and professional reading societies are presented in both Finland and East Prussia.

KAIP ĮSIGYDAVO KNYGŲ XVIII A. SUOMIJOS IR RYTŲ PRŪSIJOS LIUTERONŲ KUNIGAI: ASMENINĖS BIBLIOTEKOS IR SAVITARPIO PAGALBA (anglų kalba)

The article strives to draw parallels between the cultural contexts of the Lutheran clergy in East Prussia, where Kristijonas Donelaitis lived, and in Finland. East Prussia was part of the Prussian and Finland part of the Swedish Kingdom. The Lutheran Protestant church was state-church in both of the realms. The German culture naturally dominated in East Prussia, but its influence in Sweden and Finland was also strong. There also are parallels in the linguistic situation in East Prussia and Finland. There was a Lithuanian-speaking minority in East Prussia and a Finnish-speaking majority in Finland, both of which were shadowed by the dominant language and culture, German and Swedish, respectively. The priest served as a link between the dominant culture and administration and the common people. Two Finnish priests, Matthias Salamnius (1640–1691) and Johan Frosterus (1720–1809) that can be compared to Donelaitis in their literary production, are presented. The existence of non-theological books in the private libraries of Finnish priests is analyzed using the data in estate inventories. Information about forms of cooperation in the distribution of books, such as book circles and professional reading societies are presented in both Finland and East Prussia.

LEIDĖJŲ PROFESINĖ SPAUDA: SAMPRATA IR RAIDOS TENDENCIJOS LIETUVOJE

Differently from great Western European countries, the professional press of Lithuanian publishers appeared at a rather late stage – in the early 20th century. Until that time, no transparent and clear traditions had been formed. Furthermore, even nowadays Lithuanian specialists of publishing have no periodicals that would satisfy the ir professional and informational needs. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyse the professional press from the historical point of view and to evaluate the current demand of these specialists in professional information. The study focuses on the following issues: the understanding and concept of professional press, retroactive description of the professional press of publishers in Lithuania, comparison of the development stages with the professional press of publishers in Western European countries, evaluation of the current status of the professional press of publishers in Lithuania.Presumably, the professional periodicals of publishers have not been subject to analysis in Lithuania. Thus, using the method of scientific analysis of literature, the author of study analyses the concept of professional press, the definitions of the key terms, makes a typological analysis of periodicals. By the historical method, the analysis deals with the conditions of appearance of professional periodicals and their development stages; the causalities and consistent patterns are defined. The historical research of the professional periodical press of Lithuanian publishers revealed that the low demand and popularity of professional press were caused by the relatively small circle of professionals in the field. Most of the professional periodicals published in the early 20th century were short-lived and often limited to issues of a few copies. Only the publications of advertising books, aimed at publishers and the educated part of the reading society survived for longer periods, meanwhile professional magazines for specialists were little popular and loss-making for their publishers. The comparatively small local market of the specialists resulted in the phenomenon that only the joint publications satisfying the needs of specialists in several related fields are financially worth publishing. Further, publishers of professional press still lack the support from the professional society.

‘The high state of culture to which this part of the country has attained’: Libraries, Reading, and Society in Paisley, 1760–1830

Between 1760 and 1820 Paisley in the west of Scotland was a pioneering industrial community based on the textile industry. Most of the labour force consisted of well-paid, highly skilled handloom weavers who were able to support both reading societies and a subscription library. Associational activity was widespread among both the working and middle classes, and libraries formed part of this movement. Additionally, the town was a major centre of provincial publishing, and the town’s printers were pioneers of provincial serial publication. There were several circulating libraries and a middle-class subscription library, the Paisley Library Society, founded by the town’s civic leaders in 1802. It formed an administrative model which was copied by the Trades Library, founded in 1806, and the church libraries founded soon after. Paisley, fuelled by the Evangelical Revival, was one of the first towns in Scotland to develop church libraries and also libraries aimed primarily at children. Libraries attracted the support of local community activists, who were often involved in more than one type of library. After 1820 activity declined as handloom weaving was replaced by machinery and attention turned to mechanics’ institutes and eventually to a rate-supported solution.