Decrease in the Rate of Non-curricular Reading among Students: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Objective: The purpose of the research was to identify the effective factors in decreasing the rate of readingamong the students of Farhangian University of Kurdistan province as well as expressing the consequences and pro-viding solutions.Method: The paradigm of interpretivism with a qualitative approach and content analysis strategy of descriptivetype of written text and descriptive-analytical text format were used in this study. The participants were student-teachers of Farhangian University of Kurdistan province in the academic year of 2021-2022 with using conventionalsampling method. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview made by the researchers that was sent to60 people in a virtual environment and in the space of the learning management system (LMS). Data were analyzedby open and axial coding methods.Results: The findings were analyzed in three sections: causes, consequences and solutions. The causes in 9 cat-egories and 111 concepts included cultural and social, economic, individual and personal, virtual space and media,books, librarians and libraries, government sector, friends and family, school and university, and authors, publishersand translators. In the consequences section, 3 categories including mental and cognitive poverty, moral consequenceand cultural and social poverty were examined in 132 concepts, and in the solutions section, 7 categories includingcultural and social solutions, economic solutions, individual perspective solutions, librarian solutions, libraries, bookpublishers and translators, solutions of the government sector, solutions of family and friends, and solutions of theuniversity were identified in 127 concepts.Conclusions: The current research has been able to identify the causes and consequences of the decrease in read-ing rates among students and then identify solutions to reduce them. Public libraries can play an effective role in theapplication of these solutions while interacting with students on the one hand and the government on the other hand.
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405891460