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Community Libraries in Uganda as Sites for Negotiating Students’ Identities Stranger-Johannessen, Espen

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This paper presents data from 14 community libraries in Uganda and discusses avenues for exploring how students’ identities and imagined communities can be interpreted and analyzed through the resources and services that community libraries offer, with particular reference to the issue of language. The guiding question is: how can and do community libraries in Uganda function as sites for the negotiation of student identities and imagined communities, and what are the implications of this for the libraries, donors and student users of the libraries?

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Title
Community Libraries in Uganda as Sites for Negotiating Students’ Identities
Creator
Stranger-Johannessen, Espen
Date Issued
2012
Description
This paper presents data from 14 community libraries in Uganda and discusses avenues for exploring how students’ identities and imagined communities can be interpreted and analyzed through the resources and services that community libraries offer, with particular reference to the issue of language. The guiding question is: how can and do community libraries in Uganda function as sites for the negotiation of student identities and imagined communities, and what are the implications of this for the libraries, donors and student users of the libraries?
Subject
Libraries and community--Uganda; Language; Identity (Philosophical concept)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. LLED 510
Date Available
2015-02-10
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 2.5 Canada
DOI
10.14288/1.0075837
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52131
Affiliation
Education, Faculty of; Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/
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