Reading Primers SIG
PUBLICATION LEARNING TO READ, LEARNING RELIGION HONOURED WITH THIS YEAR’S “EDITED BOOK AWARD”
Results of an initiative of the Reading Primers SIG have recently gained prominent recognition:
The “Edited Book Award Committee” of the “Children’s Literature Association” (ChLA) unanimously voted for the volume Learning to Read, Learning Religion. Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries to be recognized as an Honor Book for this year’s “Edited Book Award”. The honoured book, edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, Matthew Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka, has been published in 2023 by John Benjamins, Amsterdam:
https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027254955.
The ChLA, with headquarters in Purcellville, VA (USA), is a non-profit association of scholars, critics, professors, students, librarians, teachers and institutions dedicated to the academic study of literature for children (
https://www.childlitassn.org/). The “Edited Book Award” is presented annually by the ChLA to recognize the contribution of outstanding collections of essays to children's literature scholarship and criticism. Eligible titles have been published two years prior to the award date.
In a message to the editors of Learning to Read, Learning Religion Naomi Lesley, professor in the English department at Holyoke Community College and Edited Book Award Committee Chair of the ChLA, states: “Each of the committee members noted the unique contribution this volume made to the field, and recognized the thoughtfulness of its editorial design as well as the impressive archival work and coordination involved. Thank you for your efforts to bring this book into the world!”
With all editors and many authors being members of the RP-SIG network, the award acknowledges the efforts of all those who have been involved in the preparation of the volume. The award is a welcome support to increasing the visibility of historical primer research internationally, and not least an incentive to continue the transnational historical study of reading primers as a research field that crosses the boundaries of countries, languages, and monodisciplinary scholarship
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Reading Primers Special Interest Group
of the International Society for Research on Textbooks and Educational 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏ia
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The Reading Primers SIG (RP-SIG) is an international network of individuals and organisations with an interest in the history of the reading primer (aapinen, bukvar’, cartilha, elementarz, Fibel, méthode de lecture, silabario ...) and/or other educational media designed for use in beginning reading instruction.
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The RP-SIG encourages research and facilitates the exchange of information about developments in the field across disciplinary and national borders. It provides a forum for researchers from various disciplines (including, but not limited to educational research, cultural studies, general and social history, sociology, political science, linguistics and book history), and also for librarians, collectors and other interested parties. Founded in 2009, it organises its activities under the umbrella of its parent organisation, the International Society for Historical and Systematic Research on Textbooks and Educational 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏ia (IGSBi).
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In November 2015, the RP-SIG, in collaboration with the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI), Braunschweig, and the Research Library for the History of Education (BBF) at the German Institute for International Educational Research, Berlin, organised the workshop ‘After the War – A New Beginning?? A Comparative Examination of Reading Primers Published and Used in 1945 in Europe’.
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The RP-SIG publishes
- the Newsletter "Reading Primers International" (RPI)
RPI 19 (October 2024)
RPI 18 (Mai 2023)
RPI 17 (July 2021)
RPI 16 (December 2020)
RPI 15 (April 2018)
RPI 14 (October 2017)
RPI 13 (January 2017)
RPI 12 (May 2016)
RPI 11 (February 2015)
RPI 10 (December 2013)
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- the International Bibliography of Studies on Reading Primers and Basal Readers ( IBSP),
- of "Lesen lernen - mehrsprachig!" - Fibeln und Lesebücher aus Europa und Amerika. Katalog der Ausstellung in Brixen/Bressanone 2011.
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Membership:
The RP-SIG has two types of membership: individual and corporate. Membership in the RP-SIG is open to individuals and organisations with a) a scholarly interest in reading primers and/or related educational media and b) the will to share their expertise with other members of the network. Membership in the International Society for Historical and Systematic Research on Textbooks and Educational 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏ia is welcome, but not mandatory, and no fees are set for RP-SIG membership.
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The SIG has members in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Uzbekistan. Corporate members of the RP-SIG include:
- the Research Group?História da Alfabetiza??o, Leitura, Escrita e dos Livros Escolares, Universit?t Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil) more information
- the Centro di documentazione e ricerca sulla storia del libro scholastico e della litteratura per l’infanzia (CESCOM), Universitá di Macerata (Italy) more information
- the Centro die Investigación MANES, Madrid (Spain) more information
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Readers who wish to learn more should feel encouraged to write to the SIG’s spokesperson:
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Dr. Wendelin Sroka
Grevendieck 21
45134 Essen
Germany
E-Mail: rp-sig@arcor.de
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