Stockholm university

Research project Testing approaches to reading

The project "Testing approaches to reading. Construction of reading comprehension in disciplinary reading practices" wants to develop a model that can be used to analyze reading practices in school. The study follows teaching in grades 5 and 8.

The main purpose of the project is to provide tools to illuminate how different approaches to working with texts in various school subjects create different conditions for students' disciplinary reading literacy and literacy development. A first aim is to develop a model for analysing reading practices with regard to how teaching is organised as well as how content is construed and encountered by the student. A secondary aim is to investigate how the model can be used to analyse specific practices.

Project members

Project managers

Jenny Wiksten Folkeryd

Professor

Department of Education, Uppsala University
Jenny Wiksten Folkeryd

Members

Åsa af Geijerstam

Senior lecturer

Department of Education, Uppsala University
Åsa af Geijerstam

Yvonne Hallesson

Senior lecturer

Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University
Yvonne Hallesson

Pia Raattamaa Visén

Senior lecturer, Associate professor

Department of Teaching and Learning
Pia Raattamaa Visén

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