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. http://bit.ly/SGReading
   

• Loh, C. E. (2019). Envisioning the School Library of the Future: A 21st Century Framework. http://bit.ly/SGLibrary2019
   

• Loh, C.E, & Sundaray, S. (2019). School Library Perspectives Survey Report 2018. http://bit.ly/LPS2018sg

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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. https://ebook.ntu.edu.sg/oer-knowledge-bites-volume11/full-view.html

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• Loh, C.E. (2020) Design Patterns for School Libraries: A Preliminary Report of the Building a Reading Culture Study 2019.  https://www.dropbox.com/s/1x0945fsg4yh6lt/Loh%20C%20E_2020_BRC%20Report_Design%20Patterns%20for%20School%20Libraries.pdf?dl=0    

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 . https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2019.1690426

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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. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04250494.2019.1610328 
   

• Nichols, S. & Loh, C.E. (2019) Challenging the Visual Discourse of Reading: or, Do Teen Readers Look Like Google Images? Changing English. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1358684X.2019.1570818
   

• Loh, C.E., Heng, T, & Wan, Z.H. (2019) Discipline and desire in spaces of reading. cultural geographies. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474474018824085
   

• 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. https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jaal.904
   

• 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.
  http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/NunXVsaJdhVeuxcJwaD3/full 
   

• 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. http://www.nie.edu.sg/docs/default-source/oer/oer_knowledge_bites_3.pdf?sfvrsn=0
   

• Loh, C. E. (2016) Leveling the Reading Gap: a Socio-Spatial Study of School Libraries and Reading in Singapore.  Literacy 50(1), 3-13.
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lit.12067/full
   

• 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. https://repository.nie.edu.sg/handle/10497/17028 
   

• 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.
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1358684X.2015.1022509 or https://repository.nie.edu.sg/bitstream/10497/17027/1/CESCE-22-2-209_a.pdf
   

• 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.
  https://repository.nie.edu.sg/bitstream/10497/6234/1/Anthropology%26EdQuarterly-LohCE-44(1)-38_a.pdf or http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01177.x/abstract
   

Book

• Loh, C. E. (2017) Reading and Social Class: The Space and Practice of Reading. NY: Routledge.
  https://www.routledge.com/The-Space-and-Practice-of-Reading-A-Case-Study-of-Reading-and-Social-Class/Loh/p/book/9781138918504