Award Date
May 2024
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Teaching and Learning
First Committee Member
Sophie Ladd
Second Committee Member
Chyllis Scott
Third Committee Member
Norma Marrun
Fourth Committee Member
Heather Dahl-Jacinto
Number of Pages
190
Abstract
With the weight and hype being put into winning these “heavy medals” as referred to by School Library Journal Blog (Mroczek-Bayci, 2023) plus the rising conflicts centered around book banning across the nation, how are school librarians selecting these titles, specifically the Caldecott winners, when adding them to their library collections? Are librarians utilizing Book Industry and Standards and Communications (BISAC) codes to aid in their curation or are they following the masses and clicking the add to cart and purchasing button, or is there another means of decision making happening? This study was guided by a qualitative narrative methodological approach (Polkinghorne, 1995). The purpose of this study was twofold. First, I wanted to better understand how school librarians make curation decisions centered on books for their collection, specifically related to incorporating Caldecott Medal winning titles. Second, I wanted to determine how if librarians’ selection decisions were centered on elements of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy as defined by Ladson-Billings (1995, 2014), Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy as defined by Paris (2012) and Critical Librarianship (Drabinski, 2019).
Keywords
BISAC codes; Caldecott Medal; children's literature; Critical Librarianship; narrative research; public elementary school librarians
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Curriculum and Social Inquiry | Educational Methods
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Repository Citation
Bylina-Streets, Nicole, "A Case for the Caldecott: Librarians Tell the Story" (2024). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 4963.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/4963
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