Reading is a transaction, a two-way process, involving a reader and a text at a particular time under particular circumstances (Rosenblatt, 1982). An interest in working with children, and an intrigue in the ways children transact with the stories they hear and/or read has turned me into a "Storycatcher" (Baldwin, 2005). As a storycatcher-researcher, I ventured into the world of stories at the Ottawa Public Library in order to exp-lore the narrative transactions of children between the ages of 3 and 6 years old. My Storycatching is a narrative within a narrative because my focus is on the four (4) child-storytellers' verbal and pictorial narratives, as they embody the literary transactions between themselves, their imaginations, and their live(d) experiences in response to the stories they hear during storytimes at the library.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/28700 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Balsawer, Veena |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 125 p. |
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