Book clubs

Bibliotherapy—the use of books to facilitate the recovery of people in distress from an emotional disturbance—has a history of nurturing metacognition to achieve a cathartic expression by verbal and nonverbal means. The support of a community with shared traumatic experiences, s…

This study focused on incoming college students' participation in a multicultural book club in which they read Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart . Sub-questions addressed the following: individual participants' responses to the novel, how participants' involvement in the group d…

This teacher research study examines the literary talk and classroom community that emerged during Book Club meetings, fishbowl discussions, and a Retrospective Reflection session which transpired in my fifth grade classroom over the course of two thematic units. Themes of cultu…