Dissertation Information for Lynne McKechnieNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Opening the "preschoolers' door to learning": An ethnographic study of the use of public libraries by preschool girls Abstract: This ethnographic field study gathered evidence about the use of public libraries by preschool girls. Thirty girls within three months of their fourth birthdays were tape-recorded and observed during one of their usual visits to their local public libraries with their mothers. During the week following the visits, mothers maintained diaries where they reported incidents involving their daughters' use of library materials and other library-related activities. Follow-up interviews were conducted with mothers to verify and find out more about the behaviour observed during the library visits and reported in the diaries. Visit, diary and interview transcripts and field notes were analyzed and coded for general themes. Vygotsky's developmental theory provided a conceptual framework for the analysis of the context in which learning opportunities arose through the use of library services and materials. |
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Students under Lynne McKechnie
ADVISEES:
- Paulette Rothbauer - University of Western Ontario (2004)
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Lisa Given - University of Western Ontario (2000)
- Pamela Jane McKenzie - University of Western Ontario (2001)
- Kim Grace Kofmel - University of Western Ontario (2002)
- Robert Carey - University of Western Ontario (2003)
- Tiffany Christine Elizabeth Veinot - University of Western Ontario (2009)
- Jen L Pecoskie - University of Western Ontario (2010)
- Lim Yeojoo - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2012)