Curriculum Connections through the Library (Principles and Practice Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563089734 ISBN 13: 9781563089732

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2003

Synopsis

Educators have wrestled with the delineation of important curriculum content for decades. What is important, and how can the school library help? Written by well-known educators and school librarians, this new work―the second in the Principles and Practice Series―explores educational principles and research, and connects national curriculum trends to current library practice. The book features eleven chapters, illustrated throughout with tables and figures. Each chapter explains major concepts and standards involved with curriculum development, instruction, and assessment, and presents real-life examples of effective practice.

An essential compendium filled with research and best practice, this volume provides important insight into the underlying principles of successful teaching and learning in the school library media center. Educators and library practitioners will gain a better understanding of the library media center's pivotal role and learn how best to empower students to become independent and lifelong learners.

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About the Author

Barbara K. Stripling has been a school librarian (Arkansas), grant administrator (Tennessee), school library supervisor (Arkansas and New York City), and library educator (Syracuse University) during an almost 50-year career. She holds a B.A., an M.A., an M.Ed., an Ed.S., and a D.P.S. Stripling was co-editor of School Library Media Quarterly and is the author or editor of numerous books, articles, and book chapters. She is the creator of the Stripling Model of Inquiry and the REACTS Taxonomy of Research Reactions.

Reviews

The authors of this book believe that school librarians, in collaboration with other educators, play a pivotal role in creating independent learners. They have chosen numerous, thought-provoking essays that sample existing scholarship and direct professionals in ways to affect curriculum, collections, and collaboration across disciplines and to aid students who must perform under the scrutiny of the national standards movement. The book contains some suggestions for joint projects, but primarily promotes open-ended, inquiry-based learning. It provides a realistic assessment of why collaboration and serving as a curriculum advisor can be so difficult as well as a good exploration of the motivations for teachers resisting change. The section on curriculum mapping and library-collection management will make many professionals look at resources in new ways. Although there is a bit of repetition in the first section, the writing is clear and purposeful. The well-documented essays contain a number of useful tables. For those who haven't time to regularly survey current library literature about our rapidly changing profession, this can be a useful "catch-up." It is not a cookie-cutter or how-to book, but it is every bit as informative as Stripling's Learning and Libraries in an Information Age (Libraries Unlimited, 1999). A stimulating choice for practicing librarians and students of library science.
Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY
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Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563089734
• ISBN 13: 9781563089732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Stripling Barbara K., Hughes-Hassell Sandra