Identity matters
Reading Research QuarterlyPublished 6 April 2002Open access
Sarah J. McCarthey, Elizabeth Birr Moje
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In a conversation represented here in print, the authors ask why literacy theorists, researchers, and teachers should care about how readers' identities are constructed, represented, and performed during acts of reading. They share the believe that such questions are central to literacy theory and pedagogy.
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