Youth Reading Research Articles

Մանկապաանեկան ընթերցանության խթանման գործում միջազգային համագործակցության դերակատարությունը

Library services to children and youth are essential in the development and maintenance of democratic society, offering them wide ac-cess and diversity of knowledge and self-education. However, it should be noted that one of the main problems of modern society is the development of reading and literacy of children and adolescents, and the mission of children's libraries is to contribute to the promotion of reading among children and adolescents using all available resources: exchange of international experience, cooperation with international organizations of the library sector and foreign specialists. Because it is necessary to form the habit of reading from the early age of the child. Library events are very important, which should be aimed at the promotion of children's book loving and reading, popularization of books and literature. Effective and professional management of children's libraries requires trained and committed librarians who will design, organize, implement library programs and services for the provision of extracurricular education and multifaceted development of children. We can state that Khnko Aper National Children's Library regularly participated and participates in international children's book fairs, conferences, seminars and other programs in order to develop children's and youth reading and exchange experience, cooperating with international partners to the maximum and designing programs that contribute to the promotion of children's and youth reading.

Creating a Reading Culture: Children’s Book Year in Kazakhstan Through the Prism of the Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools

The 2021 year was announced as “Year of Supporting Children and Youth Reading inKazakhstan”. There was a press conference; the main topic of this meeting was to supportand increase children’s and youth reading culture in Kazakhstan.

Russian Formalism in Practice: A Narratological Reading of Joseph Conrad's Youth

Conrad's shorter works of fiction are mostly ignored in the formalistic analysis of his critics. Therefore, in order to fill the gap in the literature associated with the narrative structure of Conrad's shorter works, the authors of this article consider in detail the ideas of Genette's narratology for Conrad's story "Youth, Narration". Narratology, the method used in this article, is a science of literature that originated in the works of Russian formalists and is engaged in the systematic study of narratives. The purpose of this science is to identify the basic structures and relationships involved in the creation of history and its meaning. To achieve this goal, the theorists of narratology have introduced and defined a number of language rules that separate all narratives written in all languages. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that in practice the narratological reading of the material is shown, and also shows how the authors apply these structural rules to their texts. Genette, a French narratologist, introduced five narrative categories in his book Narrative Discourse; these categories include Order, Duration, Frequency, Mood, and Voice. This article discusses Genette's narrative categories applied to Joseph Conrad's short story "Youth, Narrative" and identifies the structural nuances of this story in order to help readers in general and those who study literature, in particular, to touch upon a careful reading of Conrad's writing style.

“Ah! To Become the Balzac of America!”: The Balzacian Subtext of Sister Carrie

“Ah! To Become the Balzac of America!”: The Balzacian Subtext of <i>Sister Carrie</i>

Рецензия на коллективную монографию «Чтение молодежи в век цифровых технологий: отражение универсальных смыслов в контексте регионального исследования» (Челябинск, 2022)

The article provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of a collective monograph devoted to various angles of the study of youth reading– both in the universal dimension and based on the materials of regional sociological research (Chelyabinsk, 2022). The author analyzes in detail the structure of the work (chapters and paragraphs of the monograph), identifies relevant issues related to the analysis of the student reading audience, the implementation of their requests and reading interests in the traditional book culture and digital reality. The author points out the originality of approaches and the novelty of the material obtained, the theoretical and practical value of the results and conclusions of the study. The author focuses on identifying key strategies used to promote reading practices and popularize books in online reading communities. The author concludes that the monograph is in demand for educational institutions, libraries, and various institutions that regulate the development of reading practices in modern Russia and the world community.

PENINGKATAN MINAT BACA AL-QUR’AN MELALUI STRATEGI KOMUNIKASI PERSUASIF

The purpose of this study was to find out how to increase youth reading interest in the Koran through persuasive communication strategies of the Al-Irsyad Mosque Youth Association (IRMA) Board. This type of research is field research with a qualitative approach and analyzed with descriptive qualitative. The data collection techniques that the researchers used in this study were observation, interviews and documentation. Data analysis techniques are data reduction, data display and drawing conclusions. The research results of Irma's members used a persuasive communication strategy covering three stages, namely strategy formulation, implementation, and strategy evaluation.

The effect of response modality on reading comprehension outcomes with the SRSD instructional approach for a youth in a residential treatment facility

The current study evaluated the use of the self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) instructional approach to teach the TRAP mnemonic (Think before reading, Read a paragraph, Ask what is the main idea/important details, Paraphrase the paragraph) and its impact on youth reading comprehension performance. The TRAP mnemonic was taught to an adolescent female served in a residential treatment facility. An alternating treatment design was used to evaluate reading comprehension performance across oral retell, written retell, and written retell with word processor modalities. Social validity, treatment fidelity, and youth motivation scores are presented with limitations and areas for future research discussed.

The relationships between school children's wellbeing, socio-economic disadvantage and after-school activities: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundLower socioeconomic status is associated with poorer wellbeing among children. Identifying how children participate in after-school activities and how after-school activities are associated with wellbeing may inform interventions to improve wellbeing among children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This study explored whether children’s after-school activities varied by socioeconomic status and examined the associations between after-school activities and wellbeing in low socioeconomic status children.MethodsThis study analysed cross-sectional data from 61,759 school students in years 4 to 9 who completed the 2018 South Australian Wellbeing and Engagement Collection. Students reported the number of days per week they participated in 12 activities (after-school care, homework, music lessons or practice, youth organisations, sports, television, videogames, social media, reading, chores, arts and crafts, and socialising with friends) during the after-school period (3-6 pm) and their wellbeing (happiness, sadness, worry, engagement, perseverance, optimism, emotion regulation, and life satisfaction). Socioeconomic status was measured by parents' highest education level obtained from school enrolment data. Linear multilevel models were used to examine whether frequency of after-school activities varied by socioeconomic status. Multilevel ordered logit models were used to analyse the association between after-school activities and wellbeing amongst participants in the low socioeconomic status category.ResultsAfter-school activities differed according to socioeconomic status; high socioeconomic status children did more frequent sport, homework, and reading and low socioeconomic status children did more frequent screen-based activities (TV, videogames and social media). Among children from low socioeconomic status backgrounds, higher wellbeing was associated most consistently with more frequent sports participation, homework, reading and spending time with friends and less frequent videogames, social media and after-school care.ConclusionsChildren's wellbeing is positively associated with socioeconomic status. Amongst children from disadvantaged backgrounds, participating in sport, spending time with friends and getting less screen time may be protective for wellbeing. The results suggest that programming targeted at increasing sports participation and reducing screen time amongst children from low socioeconomic status backgrounds may support their wellbeing.

Russian Formalism in Practice: A Narratological Reading of Joseph Conrad's Youth

Conrad's shorter works of fiction are mostly ignored in the formalistic analysis of his critics. Therefore, in order to fill the gap in the literature associated with the narrative structure of Conrad's shorter works, the authors of this article consider in detail the ideas of Genette's narratology for Conrad's story "Youth, Narration". Narratology, the method used in this article, is a science of literature that originated in the works of Russian formalists and is engaged in the systematic study of narratives. The purpose of this science is to identify the basic structures and relationships involved in the creation of history and its meaning. To achieve this goal, the theorists of narratology have introduced and defined a number of language rules that separate all narratives written in all languages. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that in practice the narratological reading of the material is shown, and also shows how the authors apply these structural rules to their texts. Genette, a French narratologist, introduced five narrative categories in his book Narrative Discourse; these categories include Order, Duration, Frequency, Mood, and Voice. This article discusses Genette's narrative categories applied to Joseph Conrad's short story "Youth, Narrative" and identifies the structural nuances of this story in order to help readers in general and those who study literature, in particular, to touch upon a careful reading of Conrad's writing style.

The Reading of Youth: What Has Taken Place over Half a Century (Data, Facts, Remembrances, and Thoughts)

The Reading of Youth: What Has Taken Place over Half a Century (Data, Facts, Remembrances, and Thoughts)

READING INTERESTS OF UKRAINIAN YOUTH IN HALYCHYNA IN THE LATE 19th – THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY

The study, based on memoirs, analyzes readers' interests, the role of reading, and the culture of reading of Ukrainian youth in the early 20th century. In the memoirs, there are not mentioned all the literature one read during one's studies, but mostly only some individual works. The most readable works and genres have been outlined, including works on Ukrainian literature and history, adventure novels, socialist literature, humorous magazines, and brochures on puberty. Emphasis is placed on the fact that «extracurricular» reading or informal reading had, first of all, a self-educational goal, in those areas that were of interest to young people or those that were not taught in schools, i.e. satisfied intellectual needs. Foreign literature was read mainly in Polish translations. An essential group of authors read by high school students were Polish classics A. Mickiewicz, J. Slovatsky, J. Kraszewski, and G. Mickiewicz, who were also included in the school curriculum. The most often mentioned in memoirs Ukrainian writers were T. Shevchenko, P. Kulish, M. Kostomarov, H. Kvitka-Osnovianko, I. Franko. Ukrainian youth received books from scientific, public, and private libraries, in pupils' and students' societies, borrowed, and bought very infrequently. The school tried to control students' extracurricular reading by using punishment. If you read a certain genre of literature (mostly radical socialist), you could be expelled from a real school, gymnasium, or university. «Undesirable» literature included satirical works, romance novels, detective stories, and forensics. Keywords readers' interests, literature, high school and university students, Halychyna.

Mind the Gaps: Examining Youth's Reading, Math and Science Skills Across Northern and Rural Canada*

AbstractA new body of sociological research is finding that northern and rural youth, and in particular, low‐SES youth, face difficulties accessing higher levels of postsecondary education and lucrative fields of study such as the STEMs. However, existing research has yet to systematically measure the skills proficiencies of youth in these regions nor have we understood the factors which might account for regional differences. We draw on multiple cycles of Statistics Canada's Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A linked to the Programme for International Student Assessment scores to investigate how location of residence impacts skills proficiencies at age 15 in math, science, and reading outcomes. Overall, our results point to three key findings. First, southern youth outperform northern youth in mathematics skills. Second, we uncover a southern (both urban and rural) and northern urban advantage in reading proficiencies. Third, in science literacy, southern and northern urban youth experience significant advantages over youth from northern rural locations. While some of the skills differences are attributable to parenting styles, parental socioeconomic status, student academics, and province of residence, they are not completely attenuated by these factors. We conclude with a discussion of the implications for future research and public policy.

Transforming the Reading Preferences of Today’s Youth in the Digital Age: Intercultural Dialog

The article deals with the transformation of readers’ preferences and the formation of a “new reader” at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. In the study, the authors draw attention to the shift in the priority of the format of youth reading in favor of digital, to the loss of the former role of libraries as centers of non-formal education, as well as to the need to provide assistance to children and young people on the part of “teacher of literature”. An international study undertaken in Russia, the U.S., and the Czech Republic touches upon socio-cultural changes that influenced the reading process among the youth of these countries and the particular interest of the analyzed age group in the fantasy genre, which indicates a change in the reading preferences of young people and the need for understanding this process both in theoretical aspects and taking into account the results of empirical research. The authors conclude that it is advisable to determine the scale of values of a modern person by means of literary pedagogy, to bring it to a common denominator in the intercultural space. As the leading genre of revealed reader preferences, fantasy is becoming a multimedia phenomenon and is shifting the age boundaries of potential readers around the world.

Role of Literary Pedagogy in Modern Education of Preschool and Primary School Children

The study examines the concept of literary pedagogy as an integral part of the educational process. The authors argue that literary pedagogy as a modern trend in human development is linked to the system of continuous education, which is implemented in formal, non-formal and informal education. A distinction should be drawn between the concepts of literary education and literary pedagogy. Literary education as a process of an individual’s incorporation into the culture by means of literature is generally provided within the framework of formal education and is based on two fundamental principles — artistic and literary-aesthetic. The authors consider literary education as an aspect of literary pedagogy. This research examines the experience of the formation and development of literary pedagogy. Particular attention is given to the issue of training specialists who would be prepared to support children’s and youth reading. Given the integrative, interdisciplinary character of the reading skill, the research presents strong evidence in favour of literary pedagogy which is developing as a branch of pedagogy and as a reaction to the fall of interest in reading. Furthermore, the study provides an overview of the literary pedagogy.

Using the clustering method for a heterogeneous reading of Lebanese youth

ABSTRACT How to better study youth in ways that can capture their complex subjectivities? While qualitative methodologies succeed rather well at unpacking youth’s holistic selfhoods, quantitative tools are often more rigid at apprehending their multifaceted lives. Some tools such as multiple correspondence analysis do allow for a more nuanced and thorough understanding, and are particularly opportune in contexts where the studied group is heterogeneous in terms of social class and sectarian origin – such as the Lebanese case. Building on these attempts at quantitatively measuring youth’s multidimensional attributes, this paper analyzes a survey of Lebanese youth conducted in 2015 within the framework of the Power2Youth (P2Y) study to generate an intricate reading of young people, using the k-means clustering method. We use this technique to generate five youth groups: i) potential migrants, ii) secular youth, iii) school-to-job youth, iv) conservative students, and v) maturing youth. The paper discusses how each cluster relates to politics and religiosity, as well as to views on women’s roles and rights, highlighting the high variability within and across clusters. We conclude with reflections on how the clustering method may be useful to furthering research agendas and quantitative methodologies examining youth’s attitudes to political change in post-colonial contexts.

Will They Stay or Will They Go? Examining the Brain Drain in Canada's Provincial North.

Brain drain is an increasingly important concern for local governments in northern communities in Canada in maintaining and enhancing human capital levels to sustain vibrant economies and communities. Researchers, however, have yet to examine the magnitude of north-south out-migration nor do we know the characteristics of youth who are likely to relocate. Our study contributes to this knowledge gap by employing multiple waves from Statistics Canada's Youth in Transition Survey (Cohort A) linked to each youth's reading scores from the Programme for International Student Assessment (measured at age 15), and longitudinally to their tax filer information until age 30 (T1 Family Files).

Особенности культуры чтения молодежи в новой медиасреде

Особенности культуры чтения молодежи в новой медиасреде

Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers' comments in the margins.

The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail, how intensively young readers write and comment literary texts at an unprecedented scale. We present several analyses of how fiction is transmitted through the social reading platform Wattpad, one of the largest platforms for user-generated stories, including novels, fanfiction, humour, classics, and poetry. By mixed quantitative and qualitative methods and scalable reading we scrutinise texts and comments on Wattpad, what themes are preferred in 13 languages, what role does genre play for readers behaviour, and what kind of emotional engagement is prevalent when young readers share stories. Our results point out the rise of a global reading culture in youth reading besides national preferences for certain topics and genres, patterns of reading engagement, aesthetic values and social interaction. When reading Teen Fiction social-bonding (affective interaction) is prevalent, when reading Classics social-cognitive interaction (collective intelligence) is prevalent. An educational outcome suggests that readers who engage in Teen Fiction learn to read Classics and to judge books not only in direct emotional response to character's behaviour, but focusing more on contextualised interpretation of the text.

‘He is the only one immortal, simple and divine’ – the romantic symbolism of the cross in The Renaissance psalter by Karol Wojtyła

The cross is one of the most important motifs in Karol Wojtyla’s poems and in his latter papal teaching. The article analyses the symbolism of the cross present in the sonnets included in The Renaissance psalter by Karol Wojtyla from a romantic perspective. The influence of Zygmunt Krasinski and Cyprian Norwid whose works provided inspiration for Wojtyla is of particular importance here. The author of The Renaissance psalter appreciated The Un-Divine Comedy, Irydion and Promethidion, together with The New Middle Ages of Nikolai Berdyaev – those youthful reading experiences left a clear trace in his sonnets, which is noticeable in the symbolism of the cross, among other things. Krasinski's ideas are echoed particularly distinctively in the last sonnet that shows the dialogue of three columns among the ruins of the ancient world, even though the word ‘cross’ has not been used at all. As for Promethidion, Wojtyla borrowed the idea of the cross from it as the principle of unity of the world – the cross which enables the unification of a pagan and Christian culture, a gothic and renaissance element. (transl. Olha Zatwardnicka)

When neighborhoods matter: Developmental timing and youth reading achievement and problem behaviors

Consistent evidence links neighborhood socioeconomic status with children's development outcomes. However, it is less clear precisely whether or when neighborhoods are most strongly associated with children's socioemotional functioning and achievement. Couched in bioecological and developmental theory, this study tests two models of neighborhood effects: childhood and adolescent exposure. We used the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a longitudinal, multi-cohort study of children in Chicago in the 1990s and 2000s. We examined two cohorts of children, early childhood and adolescence, to compare the relative associations between neighborhood socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage, as measured by U.S. Census data. We conducted multilevel latent growth models (MLGMs), investigating children's initial status and growth in reading, internalizing and externalizing behaviors across the three developmental periods by neighborhood characteristics, controlling for a rich set of child- and family-level covariates. Results provided some support for the childhood and adolescent exposure models, but not precisely as hypothesized.