VANCOUVER — David Poveda, of the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain, will give a talk entitled: “The After School Lives of Middle-class ‘Literate’ Children in Madrid, Spain” at Washington State University Vancouver, July 12 at 1 p.m. in the Education and Human Development Building, room 103. Refreshments will be served. This talk is free and open to the public.
In this talk Poveda will present the results of a study conducted on the after-school routines of a sample of children from the city of Madrid, Spain. The children were recruited to participate in the study because they attended storytelling events at a library, a children’s bookstore, or a city park. The study reports in detail the after-school routines of children who can be characterized as heavily immersed in a “literature culture.” Participating children were also predominantly middle class and lived in the same district of the city of Madrid; so more broadly, these results may be informative of the daily lives of Spanish urban middle-class children.
Poveda teaches at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in the Department of Developmental Psychology and Education. He has published extensively in journals in Spanish and English such as Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Linguistics and Education, Pragmatics, Narrative Inquiry, Language in Society, and more.
