Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2008
Literature-as-lived in practice : young children's sense of voice
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis study, situated in classroom practice and grounded in pedagogic wakefulness (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000), explores the nature of young children’s sense of voice as indicated through sustained interactions and representations of experiences with picturebook literature. The naturalistic research site was a grade one classroom setting in a large urban school. Student engagement and interactions with read-aloud events and responses to literature through multi-modal representations perpetuated meaning making and personal relevance. Coding procedures exemplified the nature of young children’s sense of voice as falling into two broad conceptual categories: (1) Situated Nature and (2) Experiential Nature. The Situated Nature of young children’s sense of voice revealed developmental, exploratory, and social sites of student engagement to literature. The Experiential Nature of young children’s sense of voice described three specificities of narrativity in their responses to picturebook literature: Young children’s multi-modal responses were interpreted as representative of Self- Narrativity, Interpretive-Narrativity, and Aesthetic-Narrativity. The findings contribute to a reconceptualized literacy curriculum which illuminates personal, social, and cultural identities, especially young children’s awareness of their individual sense of voice, developed through picturebook literature in primary classrooms.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2008
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2008
Author and committee
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- Pletz, Janet
- University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
- Advisor dc:contributor.supervisor
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- Fowler, Leah
Subjects
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- Language dc:language.iso
- en_US
Identifiers
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- hdl:10133/730