Reading Culture SG

Publications

The project has published articles based on our research. Here is a selection of published literature. 

Reports

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• Loh, C. E, & Sun B.Q. (2018) Report on the Reading Habits of Singapore Teenagers 2017. 
   

• Loh, C. E. (2019). Envisioning the School Library of the Future: A 21st Century Framework. 
   

• Loh, C.E, & Sundaray, S. (2019). School Library Perspectives Survey Report 2018. 

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• Belmonte, T. & Loh, C. E. (2020). Developing the School Library Collection for Adolescents. OER Knowledge Bites Volume 11. Singapore: National Institute of Education. 

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• Loh, C.E. (2020) Design Patterns for School Libraries: A Preliminary Report of the Building a Reading Culture Study 2019.      

Journal Articles​

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• Loh, C.E. & Sun, B.Q. (2020). Cultural capital, habitus and reading futures: middle-class adolescent students’ cultivation of reading dispositions in Singapore. British Journal of Sociology of Education 41(2), 234-252 . 

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• Loh, C.E., Sun, B.Q. & Majid, S. (2019). Do girls read differently from boys? Adolescents and their gendered reading habits and preferences. English in Education.  
   

• Nichols, S. & Loh, C.E. (2019) Challenging the Visual Discourse of Reading: or, Do Teen Readers Look Like Google Images? Changing English. 
   

• Loh, C.E., Heng, T, & Wan, Z.H. (2019) Discipline and desire in spaces of reading. cultural geographies. 
   

• Loh, C.E., and Sun, B.Q. (2019) "I'd still prefer to read the hard copy": Adolescents' Print and Digital Reading Habits. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Volume 62, Issue 6, pg 593 - 705. 
   

• Loh, C.E., Ellis, M., Paculdar, A. A & Wan, Z.H. (2017) Building a successful reading culture through the school library: A Case study of a Singapore secondary school. IFLA Journal.
   
   

• Loh, C.E., Paculdar, A. A & Wan, Z.H. (2017) The Building a Reading Culture (BRC) Project Roundtable on School Libraries and Design: How Design Can Help Us Rethink Library Spaces. OER Knowledge Bites 2017 Volume 3. 
   

• Loh, C. E. (2016) Leveling the Reading Gap: a Socio-Spatial Study of School Libraries and Reading in Singapore.  Literacy 50(1), 3-13.
  
   

• Loh, C. E (2015) Mapping Library Spaces: Measuring the Effectiveness of School Libraries using a Socio-Spatial Approach. The School Librarian 63(2), 78-80.  
   

• Loh, C. E. (2015) Building a Reading Culture in a Singapore School: Identifying Spaces for Change through a Socio-Spatial Approach. Changing English 22(2), 209-221.
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• Loh, C. E. (2013) Singaporean Boys Constructing Global Literate Selves through their Reading Practices in and out of School. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 44(1), 38-57.
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Book

• Loh, C. E. (2017) Reading and Social Class: The Space and Practice of Reading. NY: Routledge.