Producing Storytime: A Collectivist Analysis of Work in a Complex Communicative Space

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Hauptverfasser: McKenzie, Pamela J., Stooke, Rosamund K.
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Veröffentlicht: 2007
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author McKenzie, Pamela J.
Stooke, Rosamund K.
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Stooke, Rosamund K.
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Stooke, Rosamund K.
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contents Producing Storytime: A Collectivist Analysis of Work in a Complex Communicative Space McKenzie, Pamela J. Stooke, Rosamund K. Public Libraries Story Reading Reading Aloud to Others Library Services Young Children Library Personnel Adults Social Environment Literacy Caring Discourse Communities Storytime programs for young children are ritual events in the everyday life of the public library. This article analyzes data from two such programs to identify and analyze the work carried out by program leaders, their adult and child participants, and other social actors in other settings (e.g., library CEOs) in order to enable the program to happen. The study builds on research on the public library as a physical space and on the library in the life of the user by describing the often invisible literacy, information, and caring work that goes into accomplishing social settings within the physical space of the library. We contend that the work carried out to produce storytime is both discursively bound and value laden and that storytime participants constitute an emerging discourse community whose work coordinates and is simultaneously coordinated by the ongoing creation and maintenance of its discursive boundaries.
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spellingShingle Producing Storytime: A Collectivist Analysis of Work in a Complex Communicative Space
McKenzie, Pamela J.
Stooke, Rosamund K.
Public Libraries
Story Reading
Reading Aloud to Others
Library Services
Young Children
Library Personnel
Adults
Social Environment
Literacy
Caring
Discourse Communities
Producing Storytime: A Collectivist Analysis of Work in a Complex Communicative Space McKenzie, Pamela J. Stooke, Rosamund K. Public Libraries Story Reading Reading Aloud to Others Library Services Young Children Library Personnel Adults Social Environment Literacy Caring Discourse Communities Storytime programs for young children are ritual events in the everyday life of the public library. This article analyzes data from two such programs to identify and analyze the work carried out by program leaders, their adult and child participants, and other social actors in other settings (e.g., library CEOs) in order to enable the program to happen. The study builds on research on the public library as a physical space and on the library in the life of the user by describing the often invisible literacy, information, and caring work that goes into accomplishing social settings within the physical space of the library. We contend that the work carried out to produce storytime is both discursively bound and value laden and that storytime participants constitute an emerging discourse community whose work coordinates and is simultaneously coordinated by the ongoing creation and maintenance of its discursive boundaries.
title Producing Storytime: A Collectivist Analysis of Work in a Complex Communicative Space
topic Public Libraries
Story Reading
Reading Aloud to Others
Library Services
Young Children
Library Personnel
Adults
Social Environment
Literacy
Caring
Discourse Communities
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ875961