Becoming abject: testing the limits and borders of reading mediation.

Reading mediation is a concept used in Latin America and Spain, referring to the nurturing role played by adults in forging relationships between children and books. In this article, we conceptualize reading mediation as a 'technology of affect'. We propose 'mediation-as-usual', a normative becoming...

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Publicado en:Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 15 - 30
Autores principales: Véliz, Soledad, García-González, Macarena
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb 2022
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