Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > What has Harry Potter done for me?

Electronic data

  • Qual What has Harry Potter done for me

    Rights statement: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-015-9267-x c The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com

    Accepted author manuscript, 362 KB, PDF document

    Available under license: CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

What has Harry Potter done for me?: children's reflections on their 'Potter experience'

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Published
Close
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>09/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Children's Literature in Education
Issue number3
Volume47
Number of pages16
Pages (from-to)267-282
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date11/01/16
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This article reports findings from a small-scale focus group study funded by the British Academy which examines children’s literacy practices in relation to the seven Harry Potter novels. Drawing on Marsh and Shavelson’s (1985) notion of Academic Self-concept, and Barton and Hamilton’s (1998) view of literacy as context-specific social practices, we examine what young British Potter ‘enthusiasts’ perceive as the influence of the novels on their subsequent reading behaviours and academic development. Specifically, we consider whether these children feel that Harry Potter has helped improve their reading, whether they think the books have changed their attitudes to reading, the role of the films, and whether there are any gender tendencies. We conclude that these Potter enthusiasts view the series as formative in terms of their literacy, but regarding gender, intra-group variation is far greater than inter-group variation.


Bibliographic note

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-015-9267-x