Each Wednesday, I write a post that is from my dissertation.
Industry workers and scrapbookers occasionally take classes on scrapbooking in order to learn more. Scrapbook stores encourage their employees to take the classes that they offer either completely for free or for the cost of the supplies used in the class (but the instruction is free).
Several respondents who were only scrapbookers took beginning scrapbook classes or learned about scrapbooking during at-home parties which are often arranged in a class format. Even more advanced scrapbookers, took classes, with a couple respondents having attended Creating Keepsakes University. Some did not take classes before they began scrapbooking but did so when the time came to do a more complicated or more important project (e.g., a heritage album, where they were dealing with older photos).
Scrapbook classes are a source of scrapbooking norms. If I were conducting my interviews today, I would also ask about online classes. Online scrapbooking classes have simply exploded. Have you ever taken an online scrapbooking class? What did you think? Comment below.
Related posts:
- I Scrap Alone
- Scrapbooking Norms: Learning the Rules of Scrapbooking
- Scrapbooking on the Web
- Scrapbookers Using Idea Books and Magazines
- Scrapbooking Celebrities
- Scrapbooking on T.V.
Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
