March 23, 2009
Why reading?, links
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Read often. Read Regularly. Read Daily.
Reading is vital because it gives us a view onto a different world. Jesse Hines at Robust Writing shares a treatise on why reading enriches us. He makes the point that non-readers are trapped in their own world-view, with no chance at an alternative perspective. It’s an amazing image, and one that feels true for me.
This week I have been a bumbling publisher who makes bad decisions, and also a 72 year old, non-englsh speaking General, betrayed by a friend. Who have you been?
Read more of the article here
August 14, 2008
Why reading?, links
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Novel Ideas picked out an interesting article inNew Scientist magazine (28th June). The issue reports on the mental benefits of reading fiction. Keith Oatley, a professor emeritus of cognitive psychology, has conducted research which shows that people who read more fiction may find it easier to discern the thoughts and feelings expressed by people’s eyes. He likens fiction to a simulation that runs on the software of our minds, and may help us when negotiating the complexities of social life.”
(Via Novel ideas : Manly Library.)
Oatley’s has also published investigation into emotions of literary response and some interesting work on deduction and inference in literature.
June 19, 2008
Childrens, Why reading?
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Reading to children is an important tool for language development. Intuitively, we know it has some effect on their future interest in reading and books. Books are useful in themselves, but the interaction between the child and adult reading together is vital.
Psychologists at York University recently studied interactions between parents and children while reading. It was found that all parents, despite gender or marital situation, added value to reading by what they said to the child. Children who had good language scores had parents who tied the story back to the child’s own experiences. Imitation and questions about the text were also related to language development in the older age studied (three year olds).
It is an interesting study and made me think more about how I interact with my children when studying. A summary of the article is reproduced here:
Book reading styles in dual-parent and single-moth…[Br J Educ Psychol. 2006] - PubMed Result
