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1. Verfasser: Nichols, Sue
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Sprache:en
Veröffentlicht: 2011
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Online-Zugang:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ930180
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contents Young Children's Literacy in the Activity Space of the Library: A Geosemiotic Investigation Nichols, Sue Foreign Countries Young Children Emergent Literacy Libraries Ethnography Participant Observation Documentation Interviews Interaction Reader Text Relationship Physical Environment Access to Information Differences Socioeconomic Status Parent Attitudes Parent Child Relationship Urban Areas Investigations An ecological approach, emphasizing the importance of understanding multiple contexts for learning, underpins this study of libraries as activity spaces for young children's literacy participation. Five libraries serving a diversity of communities were the subject of ethnographic investigation incorporating participant observation, visual documentation, and parent and librarian interviews. A geosemiotic approach was taken to the analysis of this data with an emphasis on the ways in which sociocultural and material qualities of libraries as places and spaces impacted on families' access and participation. It was found that physically accessing the library is not equally easy for all, not all communities have equally well-resourced libraries, and the social space of the library does not hail all categories of family in the same way. However, in the case of one site where discourses of leisure, consumption, and modernity were materialized throughout the space, the effect was more inclusive. For those families that do navigate successful membership of libraries, there are potential benefits related to strong connections between the performance of early literacy activities in libraries and the participation structures of the school-entry classroom. However, literacy activities run in libraries require unobtrusive parental regulation of children's participation, a requirement that may marginalize some families. (Contains 1 table and 10 figures.)
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spellingShingle Young Children's Literacy in the Activity Space of the Library: A Geosemiotic Investigation
Nichols, Sue
Foreign Countries
Young Children
Emergent Literacy
Libraries
Ethnography
Participant Observation
Documentation
Interviews
Interaction
Reader Text Relationship
Physical Environment
Access to Information
Differences
Socioeconomic Status
Parent Attitudes
Parent Child Relationship
Urban Areas
Investigations
Young Children's Literacy in the Activity Space of the Library: A Geosemiotic Investigation Nichols, Sue Foreign Countries Young Children Emergent Literacy Libraries Ethnography Participant Observation Documentation Interviews Interaction Reader Text Relationship Physical Environment Access to Information Differences Socioeconomic Status Parent Attitudes Parent Child Relationship Urban Areas Investigations An ecological approach, emphasizing the importance of understanding multiple contexts for learning, underpins this study of libraries as activity spaces for young children's literacy participation. Five libraries serving a diversity of communities were the subject of ethnographic investigation incorporating participant observation, visual documentation, and parent and librarian interviews. A geosemiotic approach was taken to the analysis of this data with an emphasis on the ways in which sociocultural and material qualities of libraries as places and spaces impacted on families' access and participation. It was found that physically accessing the library is not equally easy for all, not all communities have equally well-resourced libraries, and the social space of the library does not hail all categories of family in the same way. However, in the case of one site where discourses of leisure, consumption, and modernity were materialized throughout the space, the effect was more inclusive. For those families that do navigate successful membership of libraries, there are potential benefits related to strong connections between the performance of early literacy activities in libraries and the participation structures of the school-entry classroom. However, literacy activities run in libraries require unobtrusive parental regulation of children's participation, a requirement that may marginalize some families. (Contains 1 table and 10 figures.)
title Young Children's Literacy in the Activity Space of the Library: A Geosemiotic Investigation
topic Foreign Countries
Young Children
Emergent Literacy
Libraries
Ethnography
Participant Observation
Documentation
Interviews
Interaction
Reader Text Relationship
Physical Environment
Access to Information
Differences
Socioeconomic Status
Parent Attitudes
Parent Child Relationship
Urban Areas
Investigations
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ930180