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What's Sprouting Your Library: Emergent Literacy in the Public Library Assemblage Latrice M Ferguson
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Latrice M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Library science.
- Early childhood education.
- Teacher education.
- 0399.
- 0518.
- 0530.
- Local Subjects:
- Library science.
- Early childhood education.
- Teacher education.
- 0399.
- 0518.
- 0530.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic resource (155 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 86-12A
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2025
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Public libraries have recently come under fire as public officials push to ban books deemed too offensive to share with children. As the number of book challenges rise, so too does a perception that librarians are champions for access. However, while the public library performs a public good, there is a larger picture to consider. Namely, how the practices within the library are far more complex, especially in their services to young children and their families. This ethnographic case study, framed by assemblage theories, asks how children's playful activities are a response to the practices, histories, and people within a local public library. Using archival data, observation, interviews, photographs, and video recordings, this dissertation asserts that young children's playful activities with people, in programs, using various materials reflect their expansive, developing literacies and worldmaking practices, but in some ways have also been limited by the long-standing practices within the space
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: A.
- Advisors: Stornaiuolo, Amy Committee members: Gadsden, Vivian L.; Martin, Michelle H.; Thomas, Ebony E.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2025
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798280761926
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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