Title:

Teenagers and books – from daily reading to avoidance

Creator:

Zasacka, Zofia

Publisher:

Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych

Date:

2014

Abstract:

This paper reports a survey conducted in May 2010 on a nationally representative sample of fifteen-year-olds from 70 lower secondary schools. The general research question concerned the prevalence of Polish adolescents who did not read books after completing the phase of compulsory education. The aim of this study was to describe the place of books in teenage everyday life in terms of their reading for school, leisure, spontaneous choice of reading matter, their favourites, books they recommended, value placed on enjoyable reading and their social circle of readers. Gender was found to be a differentiating factor in the reading habits of these young people which the paper broadly describes.

Bibliographic citation:

Edukacja : an interdisciplinary approach 3. 2014

Subject and Keywords:

readership ; lower secondary school exam ; youth literature ; popular culture ; sociology of youth

Coverage:

21 w.

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons BY 4.0

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

ISSN:

0239-6858