scholarly journals Zimbabwean School Libraries as Social Spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
School Library ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

The success of students in the future is dependent upon the foundation laid down during years spent at school. Libraries play a critical role in shaping the future of students by preparing them for life beyond the school. The school library as a key component of the school curriculum has great potential to shape students through providing opportunities for independent learning. The paper will seek to find out the strategies that school libraries employ to develop student’s interpersonal skills in the advent of ICT’s. It will also examine the role of school libraries in promoting interpersonal skills development amongst students to promote responsible behaviour or citizenship. The paper will explore the extent to which school libraries can utilize technology to enhance interpersonal communication thus enhancing social inclusion. The writer will use a phenomenological paradigm to highlight the challenges and opportunities facing school libraries in urban Harare to provide effective library services to students so that they can be adequately prepared for the dynamic technology driven life premised on such skills like information literacy.

Mainstreaming Corporate Social Responsibility at the Core of the Business School Curriculum

2012 ◽  
pp. 531-545
Author(s):  
Dima Jamali ◽  
Hanin Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business School ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Corporate Social

This book chapter will make the case that corporate social responsibility (CSR) mainstreaming is an imperative to promote integrity and alleviate the strong entrenchment of utilitarian perspectives permeating management education (Ghoshal, 2005). The chapter argues that CSR mainstreaming should be anchored in the context of a vision for responsibility at the level of the School and that, starting with visioning and strategizing, business schools have to assume a more proactive role in shaping a new generation of leaders, capable of managing the complex challenges that lie at the interface of business and society. The chapter highlights challenges and opportunities in this respect and the critical role of the UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) in helping in this reorientation. The book chapter tackles these two interrelated themes systematically, and illustrate with the case of the Olayan School of Business, a leading business school in the Middle East.

scholarly journals School Library Perspectives from Asia: Trends, Innovations and Challenges in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin Ee Loh ◽  
Annie Tam ◽  
Daisuke Okada
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
21St Century ◽  
School Library ◽  
National Level ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Learning And Collaboration ◽  
Policies And Practices

In this global, multicultural world requiring greater levels of literacy, independent learning and collaboration, the school library as a learning hub needs to meet the needs of 21st century students. However, more information about how different countries’ school library policies and practices is required for nations to learn from each other. This professional panel brings together three presenters from Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan to engage with the issue of what counts as a future-ready library in their own contexts of reading and learning. Each presenter will focus on the current trends, challenges and innovations in their own contexts, with particular focus on national policies, practices and librarian education. Significant parallels and differences across the different systems will be discussed. Implications for developing future-ready school libraries and librarians at national level will be discussed.

scholarly journals Information Literacy through Guided Inquiry: Preparing Students for the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol C. Kuhlthau
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
School Library ◽  
Research Process ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Guided Inquiry ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
University Center ◽  
The Impact

Across the globe, school libraries play an essential role in preparing students for living and working in the 21st century through information literacy. The Rutgers University Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) promotes this initiative in information literacy through research on the impact of school libraries on student learning, research symposia for international scholars, and training institutes for school librarians and teachers. Our research shows that guided inquiry is a dynamic, innovative way of developing information literacy through the school library. Guided inquiry is carefully planned, closely supervised, targeted intervention of an instructional team of school librarians and teachers that leads students through the research process toward independent learning. Guided inquiry develops research skills and subject knowledge as well as fostering cooperative learning, motivation, reading comprehension, language development and social skills that underlie competency for our young people in the 21st century.

Emerging Agencies and Best Practices for Multi-Platform Advertising

2018 ◽  
pp. 302-328
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. C. Yang ◽  
Daniel Torres ◽  
Angel Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Advertising Agencies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

The rapid development of multi-platform advertising has created a lot of unforeseeable challenges and opportunities for both traditional and new advertising and marketing communications agencies. In this book chapter, the authors examined the emergence of new agencies, their best practices, and their critical role in the development, planning and implementation of multi-platform advertising campaigns. The authors analyzed emerging advertising and marketing communications agencies, best practices, and effectiveness metrics to demonstrate how the transformation of, as well as the emergence, of the new advertising agencies has helped shape the future of multi-platform advertising practices around the world.

Exploring status of library management technical aspects in Indian schools

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Navneet Kumar Sharma ◽  
Aditya Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Ranking System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library Management ◽  
Indian Schools ◽  
School Librarianship

PurposeSchool library is regarded as the heart and soul of the school. It acts as learning resource centre and support the school curriculum in all possible manners. The main aim of this paper is to document the factors associated with library management in selected school libraries in Varanasi, India.Design/methodology/approachSurvey method is used to conduct this research in which close-ended questions were provided to the school librarians. Simple random sampling was used to collect samples from secondary schools of Varanasi.FindingsIt was found that 34% school libraries affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education are managed properly and they are termed as first class library. Rest of the schools are not managed as per rules and regulations of school librarianship. Some librarians themselves are not properly aware of the significance of the library and hence the management is suffered accordingly.Practical implicationsThis research will help in exploring the existing status of library management in school libraries. The work is designed specifically for school libraries. Simple ranking system for school libraries will be helpful to make an exhaustive school ranking based on library management.Originality/valueThis research will bring on record the ground reality of school librarianship in India and the way they are managed. Simple ranking system for school library is given in this paper that will help to find out which school library is functioning properly or not.

scholarly journals School Librarians in Action: A Comparative Study of School Library Programs in Croatia and Hong Kong

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Tam ◽  
Samson Choi ◽  
Anica Tkalcevic ◽  
Zvjezdana Dukic ◽  
Joy Xiaobing Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Support Students

The study explores library programs in primary and secondary schools in Croatia and Hong Kong. The aim is to find what library programs the school libraries in Croatia and Hong Kong run in their schools, how these programs affect students’ learning and what are similarities and differences between school libraries in Croatia and Hong Kong. The study findings show that school libraries on both locations run programs to support students’ reading and to enhance their information literacy and research skills. School library programs in Croatia and Hong Kong include some similar components but also differ in some respects in approach and content. School librarians in Croatia involve wider community engagement while school librarians in Hong Kong apply technology for collection development and library instruction. Library programs in schools in both locations transcend the school walls and reach beyond the school curriculum as well.

scholarly journals Promoting Inclusion in School Libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glória Bastos
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Special Educators ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Context ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Information Literacy Skills

Several international documents explicitly point out the responsibility of libraries in supporting people with special needs, actively promoting social inclusion processes. In the school context, one of the challenges lies precisely on its ability to achieve that all students, regardless their differences and their specific needs, are able to succeed in their learning. In Portugal, the integration of students with special educational needs in regular schools brought new challenges to school libraries. In this paper we present some insights from some projects held in the SL. The results of these studies show that in general both teachers librarians and special educators are little aware of the important role that the school library can play with these students and that a collaborative work with the teacher librarian have positive impacts, both in increasing the self-esteem of students and developing their reading and information literacy skills.

scholarly journals Through the looking glass… into wonderland and beyond!

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Maree Pope
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Learning Culture ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Careful Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
Work Passion

For school libraries to thrive they need to be reimaged often and well. Without vision we walk in darkness and eventually our libraries will become irrelevant and die. With a strong vision, careful planning, hard work, passion, perseverance and determination we can all transform our libraries into exciting learning places now and for the future … and we can do it on a shoestring! This presentation follows the transformational journey of one school library, outlines the steps taken and shares the impact this has had on the positive, engaging learning culture of the school.

scholarly journals School Libraries in Portugal (1996-2016): looking into the future

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Conde
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Leadership Quality ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
The Future ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
New Phase ◽  
And Training

At the end of 2016 the Portuguese School Libraries Network Program completes 20 years of existence. The aim of this paper is to show the results achieved by the SLNP over these 20 years and its current work to address the challenges of the future. The requirement of the existence of school library ensuring its educational, formative and cultural function, as well as its leadership, quality and training principles marked the first ten years of the Program. In recent years, a second stage due to the digital revolution becomes central prove to the destination of school libraries, leading to face them as “a window to the real and online world”. The Program will pursue its goals and contribute to the new phase of development of libraries through the continuation of a strong focus of all actors in this public policy.No final de 2016 o Programa Rede de Bibliotecas Escolares completa 20 anos de existência. Constitui objeto desta comunicação dar a conhecer os resultados alcançados pelo PRBE ao longo destes 20 anos e o seu trabalho atual para responder aos desafios do futuro. Os primeiros dez anos do Programa firmaram a exigência da biblioteca na escola e o reconhecimento da sua função pedagógica, formativa e cultural, de acordo com princípios de liderança, qualidade e formação. Nos últimos anos, uma segunda etapa decorrente da revolução digital tem vindo a revelar-se central para o destino das bibliotecas escolares, levando a encará- las como “uma janela para o mundo físico e digital”. O Programa pretende prosseguir a sua missão e contribuir para a nova fase de desenvolvimento das bibliotecas, através da continuação de uma forte aposta de todos os atores nesta política pública.

scholarly journals Impact of School Libraries on Students' Life Skills

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Koimett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Young People ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Interpersonal Skills ◽  
School Library ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Hiv Aids

The main aim of this paper is to examine the importance, implications, and opportunities of the school library in providing information and ideas that are fundamental to functioning successfully in today’s information and knowledge-based society. The school library equips students with life-long learning skills and develops their imagination, enabling them to live as responsible citizens. This paper will explore how school libraries enable all members of the school community to become critical thinkers and effective users of information in all formats and media. Further, it will stress the need to link school libraries to the wider library and information network in accordance with the principles in the UNESCO Public Library Manifesto. More specifically, this paper will examine the link between life skills and the school libraries in building cognitive, personal, and interpersonal skills in the background of a developing country like Kenya. It will endeavour to corroborate Douglas (2000) statement that ‘every child must become fully competent in reading so as to succeed in school and discharge responsibilities as a dependable citizen of a democratic society’. Students in every field must read in order to keep abreast of what is happening around them. What better way can there be than having well equipped school libraries that are effortlessly accessible? This paper is based on the premise that life skills which represent the psycho-social skills that determine valued behaviour and include for example reflective skills such as problem-solving and critical thinking, personal skills such as self-awareness, and interpersonal skills can be developed through exposure to a variety of media. Reference will be made to a range of research which suggest that practicing life skills leads to qualities such as self-esteem, critical thinking, decision making, sociability and tolerance among others. For purposes of this paper, it is worth noting that UNICEF defines life skills as “a behaviour change or behaviour development approach designed to address a balance of three areas: knowledge, attitude and skills”. In Kenya today, the citizens are grappling with a myriad of problems including illiteracy, poverty, HIV/AIDS, displacement, hunger, high inflation levels, domestic violence, and terrorism. This paper will investigate how the school library can, by and large, be used to stem the challenges, and be employed to develop and grow the nation. Indeed, if young people are empowered with life skills, they will be able to make the right choices through situational analysis, critical thinking and informed decision making. Consequently, they avoid risky behaviour, reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and other vices since life skills are essentially those abilities that help promote mental well-being and competence in young people as they face the realities of life. 

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