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9:2
[Refereed section]
Birgitta Davidsson, Louise Limberg, Anna Lundh &
Lena Tyrén
Informationssökning som diskursiv och social
praktik i de yngsta skolbarnens rum för lärande
[Information Seeking as a Discursive and
Social Practice in the Youngest Schoolchildren's Rooms for
Learning]
Affiliation: University College of
Borås, Sweden
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Keywords: elementary school, ICT
tools, school librarians, teachers, literacy, information
seeking, focus groups, field studies
Abstract:
The aim of the study reported
in this article is to investigate what meanings are assigned
to information seeking and ICT as tools for learning during
the early school years. The study is framed within a
sociocultural perspective of learning. Data were collected
through focus groups with teachers and librarians, and through
field studies in five classes and two school libraries. The
findings indicate dichotomies in how teachers and librarians
ascribe meaning to ICT as tools for learning, such as control
vs. lack of control over information, and childhood (play and
imagination) vs. adulthood (technology). In the discursive and
social practices of the school and the library, books prevail
as tools for reading and information seeking. Our conclusion
is that ICT tools seem to threaten the professional identity
of elementary school teachers and librarians, since their
traditional overall task has been to teach reading by using
their professional knowledge of children’s literature.
The article may be referenced as
Davidsson, Birgitta, Louise Limberg, Anna Lundh & Lena
Tyrén.
“Informationssökning som diskursiv och
social praktik i de yngsta skolbarnens rum för lärande.”
Human IT
9.2
(2007): 76–133. <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-9/bdllallt.pdf>
