Rural Voices: A Photographic Journey of the Intersection of Place and Reading Identity in Rural Adolescents

<p>Researchers have long been documenting the decline in reading habits of Americans, particularly adolescents and young adults. Reading for pleasure has been declining for the last three decades. Young people claim that reading is boring and irrelevant to their fast-paced, largely digital lives. In the past two decades, the decline of reading has captured wide attention, but most of that attention has been focused on urban and suburban settings. A gap exists in the research when it comes to rural students and their reading habits. Using photo elicitation, I gained an understanding of reading identity as it relates to rural teenagers in Georgia. Specifically, I explored how they position themselves as readers and how they describe and interpret their reading lives.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Secondary Education - English (Ed.D)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Secondary and Middle Grades Education

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Brown, Gena

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Camille Sutton-Fox
• Dr. Darren Crovitz
• Dr. Robert Montgomery

• rural
• rural education
• reading
• reading identity
• place
• photo elicitation
• Language and Literacy Education
• Other Education
• Secondary Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/eddsmge/8

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:eddsmge-1007