Date of Award
Spring 5-12-2023
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Secondary Education - English (Ed.D)
Department
Secondary and Middle Grades Education
Committee Chair/First Advisor
Dr. Camille Sutton-Fox
Second Advisor
Dr. Darren Crovitz
Third Advisor
Dr. Robert Montgomery
Abstract
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.
Included in
Language and Literacy Education Commons, Other Education Commons, Secondary Education Commons