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Seeing with the camera: analysing children’s photographs of literacy in the home
Author(s) -
Moss Gemma
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of research in reading
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9817
pISSN - 0141-0423
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9817.00149
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , literacy , focus (optics) , process (computing) , focus group , visual literacy , pedagogy , visual arts , sociology , linguistics , computer science , art , anthropology , philosophy , physics , optics , operating system
This article examines the issues raised by photographs children took of reading in the home as part of a funded research project exploring the gendering of reading in the 7–9 age group. The main focus is on the dilemmas the images pose for analysis, and what the images, considered in themselves, can be taken as evidence for. This discussion is linked to current concerns about the nature of the support that homes could and should offer to the process of learning to read.