SCHOOL LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE

Volume 11, Number 1, January 2005

Theme: Student Learning Through Ohio School Libraries

A Place to Learn or a Place for Leisure: Pupils' Use of the School Library in Norway [PDF]
Elisabeth Tallaksen Rafste
The aim of this article is to present findings about how students in Norway use and value the school library as part of their daily practice at school, and who those users are. Data was collected through observations, interviews and questionnaires in two case study schools (16-18 year old pupils) during half a year. The findings indicate that the students use and value the school library more as a social meeting-place and a place for pleasure than as a place for educationally related studies. The data are discussed within a theoretical frame of sociology and domain specific socialization theories, and describe the library as a porous space in the school.

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