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Direct linkBeautyman, Wendy; Shenton, Andrew K. – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2009
This paper explores the nature of school-inspired information wants. It considers how such wants arise and actions taken by youngsters to meet them. The methodology within the study reported was one of interpretivist ethnography, with data collected from two classes of 7- to 8-year-olds in an English primary school via a form of participant…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Participant Observation, Ethnography, Information Seeking
Shenton, Andrew K.; Nesset, Valerie; Hayter, Susan – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2008
Although information has become increasingly prevalent in young people's lives, minimal research has addressed children's attitudes to the word itself. This paper scrutinizes questionnaire-based data to explore how 45 eight- to ten-year-old Canadians understood the term. "Information" was often considered to be material that met a need,…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Student Attitudes, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests
