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Identity matters
Author(s) -
McCarthey Sarah J.,
Moje Elizabeth Birr
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
reading research quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1936-2722
pISSN - 0034-0553
DOI - 10.1598/rrq.37.2.6
Subject(s) - conversation , identity (music) , literacy , reading (process) , conversation analysis , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , literacy education , critical literacy , linguistics , communication , aesthetics , art , philosophy
In a conversation represented here in print, the authors ask why literacy theorists, researchers, and teachers should care about how readers' identities are constructed, represented, and performed during acts of reading. They share the believe that such questions are central to literacy theory and pedagogy.