La lectura como práctica cultural: conceptos para el estudio de los libros escolares

This article presents a perspective on the study of classroom reading practices based on the work of French social historian Roger Chartier. This scholar conceives the reading as a cultural practice that draws on shared artifacts, behaviors, attitudes and meanings. A basic tenet of his research is that "the acts of reading that give texts their plural and mobile meanings take place at the point of encounter between specific manners of reading and the reading protocols contained in the object that is read" (Chartier 1993:80). His analysis centers on the material aspects of the book, and on read...