Résumés
Abstract
Historians of children’s reading highlight how the voices, opinions and ideas of actual children, are missing from most institutional archives. Contemporary scholars have an opportunity to change that situation for the future by co‑producing research with children. This paper examines how a class of ten‑year‑old schoolchildren in England engaged with a multidisciplinary arts project involving creative writing, digital game‑making and reading research activities. The paper builds upon scholarship that emphasizes the importance of conceptualizing research projects about children’s reading with reference to transliteracies, multimodality and creative reading. It argues that, by offering the children different forms and media of expression and various means of documentation, the project enabled them to articulate vernacular as well as schooled ways of reading. Significantly, the children’s perspectives on their own reading acts and habits offer valuable insights into the qualities of their reading experiences as child readers navigating a twenty‑first‑century transmedia environment.
Keywords:
- Child readers,
- twenty‑first century,
- arts‑based methods,
- multimodality,
- leisure reading
Résumé
Les historiennes et historiens de la lecture chez l’enfant soulignent le fait que la voix, les opinions et les idées des enfants se font rares dans la plupart des archives institutionnelles. Il est toutefois possible, pour les chercheuses et chercheurs, de remédier à la situation par la coproduction d’études avec des enfants. L’article propose l’exemple d’une classe, en Angleterre, dont les élèves de dix ans se sont investis dans un projet artistique multidisciplinaire alliant création littéraire, conception de jeux vidéos et activités de recherche sur la lecture. La littérature sur laquelle il s’appuie fait valoir l’importance de conceptualiser les projets de recherche portant sur la lecture chez l’enfant en se référant à la translittératie, à la multimodalité et à la lecture créative. Le projet cité en exemple offrait aux enfants des moyens diversifiés de documenter leurs idées au sujet de la lecture, par l’entremise de différents médias. L’article soutient que c’est ce foisonnement de formes d’expression qui leur a permis d’articuler des pratiques de lecture, tant les pratiques plus informelles que celles préconisées par l’école. Plus particulièrement, les perspectives des enfants sur leurs propres actes et habitudes de lecture jettent un éclairage précieux sur la nature de leurs expériences en tant que jeunes lectrices et lecteurs se frayant un chemin dans l’environnement transmédiatique du xxie siècle.
Mots-clés :
- Enfants lecteurs,
- xxie siècle,
- méthodes de recherche basées sur l’art,
- multimodalité,
- lecture de détente
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