scholarly journals Developing Online Master's Programs for Teacher-Librarians

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Oberg
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
School Library ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
Library Education ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Correspondence Study ◽  
Teacher Librarians

Over the past four decades, in Australia, Canada and the USA, school library education at a distance has been delivered though three primary modes: (1) correspondence study; (2) two-way or interactive television and videoconferencing; and (3) Web-based onlinelearning management systems. The theoretical foundations of distance education emphasize that the particular technology or mode of distance education is not as important as the pedagogy employed. Major pedagogical approaches evident in school library education at a distance are: behaviourist/cognitivist; constructivist; and connectivist. This brief history of school library education at a distance focuses on efforts to free school library education from the bounds set by the traditional location and scheduling of library education--on-campus, in universities in cities, with regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings, most amenable to fulltime students. Today’s school library education at a distance is primarily an anytime/anyplace endeavour that is attractive to part time students who are employed full time.

scholarly journals Impact Study of the Teacher Librarian Specific Training on Educational Achievement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Novo ◽  
José António Calixto
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
School Library ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Teacher Librarians

This paper presents the current situation of the school library teams’ specific training in the Portuguese Integrated Elementary Schools that in 2005 were already in the Portuguese School Libraries’ Network. Other countries’ studies, like the ones from the USA and UK, suggest that students achieve higher levels of literacy, learning and problem solving when teacher librarians have specific training to perform their duties. The analysis of data gathered from a questionnaire shows that 32% of the Portuguese school librarians do not have any kind of specific training. This scenario suggests that there hasn’t been any significant improvement since 10 years ago especially in what school librarians’ training is concerned.

scholarly journals Professional Training for Media Specialists, School Librarians, and Teacher-Librarians: A Program Proposal

2021 ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Blanche Woolls
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Media Specialists ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Full Time Employment

Programs to prepare librarians and information professionals of all types often begin with on-the-pb training of volunteers, students, and paraprofessionals who go to work in a library while they are in school or as part-time of full-time employment when such non-professional jobs are available. On-site training is not unusual. In early days of libraries, librarians were often trained through an apprentice-type program. The newest methods for training librarians include an expansion of a tried and true 'distance' plan, the 'corspondence' course method where lessons were mailed to the students and the responses returned to the instructor through the mail. The newest form of 'mail' is now electronic. In addition, students are able to 'attend' classes through electronic transmission in a variety of formats. This paper traces the beginning of a distance education program at a single institution and highlights the rapid expansion because of an acute need for school librarians. It details the plans for the future which has a forecase for exchange of teachers and students via distance education between sites throughout the world.

10,000 Newly Certified Librarians, 100 Secure Jobs

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-101
Author(s):  
Daisuke Okada
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
School Library ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Curriculum Model ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
School Librarianship ◽  
Teacher Librarians

This chapter discusses the status, challenges, and issues encountered in librarianship in Japan, especially school librarianship. Specifically, it focuses on the certifications for school library staff, the curriculum model, and the employability of certified librarians. Topics related to Library and Information Studies schools, training programs for certified librarians, summer and distance education, qualifications and accreditation of teacher librarians are discussed as well. Currently, librarianship and school librarianship are not close to implementing internationalization; however, this discussion cannot be avoided. Hence, this chapter argues that it is necessary to incorporate the specific trends in Japan along with global trends.

scholarly journals The Provision of school library resources in a changing environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Busi Dlamini ◽  
Busi Dlamini ◽  
Anna Brown
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Library ◽  
Full Time ◽  
White Children ◽  
East Indian ◽  
Departments Of Education ◽  
White Schools ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Racial Lines ◽  
Teacher Librarians

Before 1994 education in South Africa was divided along racial lines. There were separate departments of education for whites, coloureds (people of mixed decent), Indians (people of East Indian decent), and blacks (black Africans). Education for white children was much better funded than any of the others. The quality of the education that white children enjoyed was also much better as schools were better equipped, teachers were better qualified and classes were smaller. This inequality also applied to school library provision. All white schools had well-equipped libraries and full-time teacher-librarians. A start was made with libraries in the other departments, but , for example, only secondary schools for black learners had libraries. Black primary schools were just provided with classroom collections.

scholarly journals TRAINING TEACHER-LIBRARIANS TO ESTABLISH AND MANAGE SCHOOL LIBRARIES IN KWAZULU-NATAL: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Davies Evans
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Library ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Teacher Librarians

The present study aimed to assess the establishing, managing and sustaining of public school libraries in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in order to recommend ways to improve the appropriateness of training and development of teacher-librarians currently offered at the University of Zululand. Both interpretive and critical research paradigms were embraced, while a case study method and inductive reasoning were followed. The findings indicate that most public school libraries surveyed are neither fully functional nor properly resourced. They lack full-time teacher-librarians who are trained to manage and integrate their collections into the curriculum. Furthermore, the quality of library services differs markedly between rural and urban schools. It is recommended that the provincial Department of Education (DoE) school library services selectively award teacher-librarian bursaries to suitable candidates and then combine these awards with the provision of core collections of books and technologies, thereby linking the establishment of their school libraries to the practical outcomes in the two-year university-based training programme.

scholarly journals Making and Implementing an Environmental Studies Database for Teacher Librarians: Metadata Education for Teacher Librarians

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fukuji Imai ◽  
Anne McKnight ◽  
Kuniharu Tabata ◽  
Shinji Iwamasa
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
School Library ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Library Education ◽  
Teacher Librarians

Metadata encodes important knowledge for school library education. This study framed two questions: 1. How are metadata treated in teacher librarian textbooks? 2. What teaching materials are best for teacher librarians’ metadata education? To answer question one, we investigated the regulation of subject and content by Ministry of Education in Japan and we reviewed teacher librarian textbooks. To answer question two, we created an environmental studies database that included geographical metadata, and then surveyed undergraduate students to learn how the database was utilized. In conclusion, we recommend that future studies of metadata examine both how metadata are defined and how metadata are used in particular situations.

Problems of Distance Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostislav Fojtík
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Educational Requirements

Abstract Distance learning and e-learning have significantly developed in recent years. It is also due to changing educational requirements, especially for adults. The article aims to show the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning. Examples of the 20-year use of the distance learning form of computer science describe the difficulties associated with the implementation and implementation of this form of teaching. The results of students in the full-time and distance form of teaching in the bachelor’s study of computer science are compared. Long-term findings show that distant students have significantly lower scores in the first years of study than full-time bachelor students. In the following years of study, the differences diminish, and students’ results are comparable. The article describes the possibilities of improving the quality of distance learning.

The Politics of Distance Edcucation

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Mark Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Small Population ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Instructional Software ◽  
College Level ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
Fiscal Efficiency

"Distance education" at the college level is well over a century old.  It has served the needs of a numerically large, but proportionately small population of learners who have eschewed the campus classroom.  These correspondence school enrollees, educational TV watchers, and audiocassette listeners have had only modest impact on the structure, mission, and strategy of the institutions serving them.  But that is now changing, and changing very dramatically.  The advent of the Internet, interactive television technology, and web-based instructional software, coupled with administrative and political perceptions of educational reformation and fiscal efficiency, may be causing nothing less than a revolution in higher education.  By applying a feminist model of assessment called "unthinking technology," that is to say, exploring the potential, but unthought of socio-political aspects of this technological revolution, this paper raises significant questions about the security of the traditional academic enterprise.  "The Politics of Distance Education" urges a pro-active embrace of these technologies by the academy in order to enable a legitimate "competency for grievance" so that the protection of the validity of higher education, and legitimacy of the academic profession can be ethically defended and publicly respected, rather than being viewed as mulish resistance to the inevitable.

Lacking status hinders prosocial behavior among the powerful

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1547-1560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeri Cho ◽  
Nathanael J. Fast
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
High Power ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Interpersonal Helping ◽  
Power Hierarchy

We conducted 2 studies to examine if status has varying effects on prosocial behavior for those at different levels of the power hierarchy. In Study 1 (N = 78), adults employed full-time in the USA responded to an online survey and the results showed that self-perceived power and status interacted to predict prosocial behavior. That is, lacking status led high-power, but not low-power, individuals to engage less in prosocial behavior. In Study 2 (N = 142), we orthogonally manipulated status and power and measured prosocial behavior. Once again, lacking status led to less helping behavior among high-power, but not low-power, participants. These findings show how power and status interact to influence interpersonal helping behavior. Implications for future research on social hierarchy and prosocial behavior are discussed.

scholarly journals Building a Vibrant Future for School Librarians through Online Conversations for Professional Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy O'Connell
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Media ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Media Channels

Technology and social media platforms are driving an unprecedented reorganization of the learning environment in and beyond schools around the world. Technology provides us leadership challenges, and at the same time offers opportunities for communication and learning through technology channels to support professional development. School librarians and teacher librarians are often working as the sole information practitioner in their school, and need to stay in touch with others beyond their own school to develop their personal professional capacity to lead within their school. The Australian Teacher Librarian Network aims to make a difference, and supports school library staff in Australia and around the world to build professional networks and personal learning connections, offering an open and free exchange of ideas, strategies and resources to build collegiality. This ongoing professional conversation through online and social media channels is an important way to connect, communicate and collaborate in building a vibrant future for school librarians.

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