Teacher and librarian partnerships in literacy education in the 21st century

This volume explores teacher and librarian partnerships in literacy education, showing that such partnerships are essential to literacy education in 21st century. The contributors reconceptualize literacy education based on teacher and librarian partnerships. Studies from Sweden, Norway and the U.K. analyze such partnerships as sociocultural and intercultural practices, documenting ways in which teacher and librarian partnerships in literacy education enhance reading literacy, learning, empowerment and social justice. The authors treat literacies as social practices, rather than as an autonomous skill, working with interdisciplinary perspectives that draw on educational research, New Literacy Studies, library and information science and interprofessional studies. Equally important, the contributors show that the partnerships foster work with the multiple literacies of students and communities, and students? attachment to the public and school library. The contributors also analyze tensions and contradictions in literacy education and in school library policy and practice, and attempt to deal with these challenges. Includes bibliographical references. Why teacher and librarian partnerships in literacy education in the 21st century? / Joron Pihl, Tone Cecilie Carlsten and Kristin Skinstad van der Kooij -- New literacy studies in education contexts / Brian V. Street -- Can library use enhance intercultural education? / Joron Pihl -- A library and school network in Sweden: social literacies and popular education / Helen Avery -- Literacy education, reading engagement and library use in multilingual classes / Ingebjorg Tonn and Joron Pihl -- Librarian and teacher collaboration: enhancing second-language learner's literacy development / Ulla Damber -- A state-run school library progamme in Norway: political contradiction / Tone Cecilie Carlsten and Jorgen Sjastad -- A multilingual book cafe and the school library: contradictions between literacy discourses / Thomas Eri -- School librarians as leaders of extracurricular reading groups / Teresa Cremin and Joan Swann. Imported from: zcat.oclc.org:210/OLUCWorldCat (Do not remove)