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1. People joinabookcluboraliterarygatheringfreely,andtheymayregisteror
deregister as theywish.
2. No participants are rejected or discriminated against because of sex, age,
culture, academicbackground, etc.
3. Whether or not reading is a habit previously acquired by participants, it is
central and takesplaceonan individual basis.
4. After the individual reading, agroupdiscussion isheld that seeks to involve
participants in an egalitarian and democratic way. To facilitate this, group
membersusually sit ina circlewhere theycansee eachother’s faces.
5. They can take place in all kinds of centres: cultural associations, libraries,
schools, prisons, nursing homes, community centres, women’s groups,
companies, etc.
6. They canbe carried outwith children, youngpeople and adults, with slight
variations,whichdependingonthecases,cancauseproblemsregardingpoint
1.Forexample, inschools thedialogical literarygatheringusually takesplace
during the Spanish Language and Literature class, whichmeans that those
takingpart cannotoptout.
However, it isalsopossibletoidentifydifferencesbetweenbothpractices,mainly
due to their origins. The first book clubs began in English-speaking countries
duringtheVictorianperiod,andduetotheirsuccess, thepracticespreadtoother
countries,but itdidnot reachSpainuntil themid-1980s, first inpublic libraries
and years later in social, educational and cultural centres of all kinds, which
imitated thismodel.At first, theywereonlyaddressedtoanadult audienceand
narrative reading predominated, but gradually they started to involve children
and young people in libraries and schools that were innovative in terms of
reading4. Theyhavenowbecomediversified, and in somecases book clubs are
organisedbyspecific literarygenres(comics,blacknovels,poetry),ortoworkon
specific themes, both in face-to-face and virtual formats5. Book clubs are net-
worksthatareusually,butnotalways,comprisedofconsumersof literature,who
meet periodically to discuss all kinds of literaryworks proposed either by the
participantsorby thecoordinator.
Dialogic literary gatherings began in the early 1980s in Spain at an adult
education centre, as part of a process of egalitarian and democratic change
implementedby the centre and its community. It stemmed from the efforts of
community organisations, associations and groups, teaching practitioners and
students, and experimentedwith practices thatwould foment learning, partic-
ipation,motivation and a positive coexistence. Dialogic literary gatherings are
4 Álvarez/Pascual2013, 2014.
5 Domingo/Sola2005.
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Über Bücher reden
Literaturrezeption in Lesegemeinschaften
- Title
- Über Bücher reden
- Subtitle
- Literaturrezeption in Lesegemeinschaften
- Author
- Doris Moser
- Editor
- Claudia Dürr
- Publisher
- V&R unipress
- Date
- 2021
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-7370-1323-9
- Size
- 15.5 x 23.2 cm
- Pages
- 262
- Category
- Lehrbücher