Collaboration, Skills Integration, and Liberation: How Black Girls' Collective Reading Motivation Redefines a Prevalent Concept (Poster 2)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 1
  In Poster Session: Comprehensive Approaches to Complex Problems: Using Quantitative/Mixed Methods to Study Cognition and Motivation in Context (San Diego)

Abstract

This paper addresses tensions between how researchers have conceptualized and operationalized adolescent reading motivation and how a group of Black girl readers perceive, experience and enact reading motivation. Through a grounded theory approach, this qualitative study offers an initial exploration into mapping a race-reimaged reading motivation construct by centering the views and experiences of a group of adolescent Black girl readers. Results demonstrate how reading motivation for these Black girl readers is collaborative, skills-oriented, and liberatory.

Author

• Sara Ann Jones, Illinois State University