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Mackey, Margaret.
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Mackey, Margaret, 1948- -- Books and reading.
Mackey, Margaret, 1948- -- Childhood and youth.
Books and reading -- Biography.
Reading.
Literacy.
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Mackey, Margaret.
Mackey, Margaret, 1948- -- Books and reading.
Mackey, Margaret, 1948- -- Childhood and youth.
Books and reading -- Biography.
Reading.
Literacy.
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One child reading : my auto-bibliography /
Margaret
Mackey
.
by
Mackey
,
Margaret
.
The University of Alberta Press, 2016.
Call #:
418.4 M157o
Subjects
Mackey
,
Margaret
, 1948- -- Books and reading.
Mackey
,
Margaret
, 1948- -- Childhood and youth.
Books and reading -- Biography.
Reading.
Literacy.
ISBN:
9781772120394 (pbk.)
Description:
xvi, 567 p.; 26 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In a significant and unique contribution to our understanding of reading and literacy development,
Margaret
Mackey
draws together memory, textual criticism, social analysis, and reading theory in an extraordinary act of self-study. Seeking a deeper sense of what happens when we read,
Mackey
revisited the texts she read, viewed, listened to, and played as she became literate in the 1950s and 1960s in St. John's, Newfoundland. This reading included school texts, knitting patterns, and games, as well as hundreds of books. A deftly theorized exploration of how a reader is constructed.
Margaret
Mackey
is a professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta"--Provided by publisher.
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Memoirs.
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