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Exploring The Placelessness Of Reading Among Older Teens In A Rural Municipality, Paulette Rothbauer
Exploring The Placelessness Of Reading Among Older Teens In A Rural Municipality, Paulette Rothbauer
Paulette Rothbauer
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Situated in a review of rural, cultural, and youth geographies, this article reports on a qualitative study of the role of reading and libraries in the lives of older rural teenagers. The primary method of data collection was the use of in-depth, flexibly structured interviews with twenty-seven youth between the ages of fifteen and nineteen years, supplemented with data from unobtrusive observation and environmental scanning in a specific geographic locale. Four themes are …