Margaret Mackey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4974348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Mackey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackey |
| SIGNATURE | MACKEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5828-9351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Girl Detectives, Apprentice Readers, and the Case of Who Cooks Dinner
Small Characters, Big Worlds, and Intertextual Reading
Shirley Hughes published six picturebooks about siblings Lucy and Tom between 1960 and 1987. The set of connected titles fulfills a major condition of being a series: the stories are related and feature the same characters. But the books do not follow the kind of set pattern of seriality that we normally expect: they do not follow each other in a predictable sequence, nor do they abandon sequence for reiteration and repetition of an unchanging st…
Private Readerly Experiences of Presence
This article draws on Philip Barnard's model of the interactions between theory and practice, between basic and applied research, to investigate the paradox of reading as an experience both private and public. It uses internal reader experience as a starting point for exploration, evoking the concept of a readerly sense of presence as a selection criterion. Investigating chapters in two novels for young readers, Northern Lights (The Golden Compas…
Embeddedness, Affect, and Reading
Formative Young Adult Literature
Joshua Landy says “formative fictions” help us fine-tune our mental capacities. This article looks at how novels for young adults may challenge readers to fine-tune their capacities as readers of more complex fiction. Three sample titles ( I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy, and Slay by Brittney Morris) make use of character-authors to invite readers to negotiate the terms of reading. Young readers normally have …
The Famous Five and the Autotopographical Two
Learning to Choose
Often the difference between a successful and unsuccessful reader is that the former is simply better at finding enjoyable books to read. The capacity to select appealing reading is not developed in classrooms where the decision about what book to read is made by someone other than the reader: the teacher, the curriculum planner, the person who buys material for the stock cupboard. We can learn much from avid readers, the truly successful chooser…
Pirates and poachers
This article explores what teachers and students can learn about contemporary story‐telling from a study of fan fiction – that is, stories created by readers and viewers out of the canonical material of previously published fictions. Drawing on the example of Pirates of the Caribbean, it investigates ways in which fan fiction writers develop codes and conventions to govern themselves. For example, online litmus tests establish when a writer is se…
Graphic Routes to Electronic Literacy
New media and technologies operate in polysemic formats that make complex demands on readers. During a time of constant change in ways of communicating, the familiar form of the picture book offers readers of all ages a route into sophisticated polysemic reading. Contemporary picture books provide both the comfort of the known and the potential of the new. As texts that use multiple semiotic systems, picture books also manifest the chief virtue o…
Good-Enough Reading
Describes one element of the reading act as it operates in time--how "good-enough" readers of complex fiction strike a personal balance between the need for momentum and the need for accountability to the text. Draws from protocols provided by 33 readers, from eighth grade to Ph.D. level, following two readings of a novel
Pirates and poachers
This article explores what teachers and students can learn about contemporary story‐telling from a study of fan fiction – that is, stories created by readers and viewers out of the canonical material of previously published fictions. Drawing on the example of Pirates of the Caribbean, it investigates ways in which fan fiction writers develop codes and conventions to govern themselves. For example, online litmus tests establish when a writer is se…
Good-Enough Reading
Describes one element of the reading act as it operates in time--how "good-enough" readers of complex fiction strike a personal balance between the need for momentum and the need for accountability to the text. Draws from protocols provided by 33 readers, from eighth grade to Ph.D. level, following two readings of a novel
Graphic Routes to Electronic Literacy
New media and technologies operate in polysemic formats that make complex demands on readers. During a time of constant change in ways of communicating, the familiar form of the picture book offers readers of all ages a route into sophisticated polysemic reading. Contemporary picture books provide both the comfort of the known and the potential of the new. As texts that use multiple semiotic systems, picture books also manifest the chief virtue o…
Pirates and poachers
This article explores what teachers and students can learn about contemporary story‐telling from a study of fan fiction – that is, stories created by readers and viewers out of the canonical material of previously published fictions. Drawing on the example of Pirates of the Caribbean, it investigates ways in which fan fiction writers develop codes and conventions to govern themselves. For example, online litmus tests establish when a writer is se…
Learning to Choose
Often the difference between a successful and unsuccessful reader is that the former is simply better at finding enjoyable books to read. The capacity to select appealing reading is not developed in classrooms where the decision about what book to read is made by someone other than the reader: the teacher, the curriculum planner, the person who buys material for the stock cupboard. We can learn much from avid readers, the truly successful chooser…
The Famous Five and the Autotopographical Two
Private Readerly Experiences of Presence
This article draws on Philip Barnard's model of the interactions between theory and practice, between basic and applied research, to investigate the paradox of reading as an experience both private and public. It uses internal reader experience as a starting point for exploration, evoking the concept of a readerly sense of presence as a selection criterion. Investigating chapters in two novels for young readers, Northern Lights (The Golden Compas…
Embeddedness, Affect, and Reading
Formative Young Adult Literature
Joshua Landy says “formative fictions” help us fine-tune our mental capacities. This article looks at how novels for young adults may challenge readers to fine-tune their capacities as readers of more complex fiction. Three sample titles ( I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy, and Slay by Brittney Morris) make use of character-authors to invite readers to negotiate the terms of reading. Young readers normally have …
Small Characters, Big Worlds, and Intertextual Reading
Shirley Hughes published six picturebooks about siblings Lucy and Tom between 1960 and 1987. The set of connected titles fulfills a major condition of being a series: the stories are related and feature the same characters. But the books do not follow the kind of set pattern of seriality that we normally expect: they do not follow each other in a predictable sequence, nor do they abandon sequence for reiteration and repetition of an unchanging st…
Girl Detectives, Apprentice Readers, and the Case of Who Cooks Dinner
Linguistics (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works) · Reading (process (4 works)