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© 2021 V&R unipress, Brill Deutschland GmbH ISBN Print: 9783847113232 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737013239 basedonFreire’sconceptofdialogicity6andhavegivenrise toanotherconcept, thatof ‘dialogicreading’,whichreliesonthesevenprinciplesofdialogiclearning: egalitarian dialogue, cultural intelligence, transformation, instrumental di- mension, creationofmeaning, solidarity and the equality of differences. From this approach, reading is the intersubjective process of appropriating a text by movingtomoreprofoundinterpretations,criticallyreflectingonthetextandits context, and intensifying reading comprehension through interaction with others, thusopeninguppossibilitiesforthetransformationof theindividualasa readerandasanindividualintheworld7.Literarygatheringmembersreadclassic worksof universal literature, divided into chapters andhold a (usuallyweekly) meetingaimedat theirdiscussion. Despitethefactthatthetwostrategiesdescribedhaveledtosignificantresults in improving reading comprehension and fostering a taste for reading and readinghabit inchildhood/adulthood, theyhavenotyetbecomewidespreadin alleducationalandsocialorganisations,wheremanygapsexist intheircommon anddifferentiating features. 2 Methodological framework This paper presents the results of an ethnographic study that compares how different book clubs and dialogical literary gatherings operate in Spain and Brazil, with children and adults, respectively, from the perspective of reading innovation in social andeducational organisations. 2.1 Aim Theaimof thestudyistoidentifythesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenabook clubandadialogicliterarygatheringwithinanorganisation(school,community centre, library,prison,women’sassociation,etc.).Basedonthisgeneralaim, the studyhas the following specificobjectives: (1) Tobecomeinvolvedinthediscussionsindifferentbookclubsanddialogical literary gatherings in order to observe them from an ethnographic per- spective, to audio-record (if possible), and note themost prominent dis- cussionsand the styleofmoderationcarriedout. 6 Freire1975. 7 Vallset al. 2008. Similarities anddifferencesbetweenbookclubsanddialogic literarygatherings 245 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0