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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Collaboration as School Reform: Are There Patterns in the Chaos of Planning with Teachers?
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Kimmel, Sue C. – School Library Research, 2012
Emphasis on collaboration is a significant thrust in both current school reform and school librarianship. Planning for instruction is generally included in various definitions and models of collaboration. Some research exists about individual planning done in isolation (Warren 2000), but little is known about teachers' planning with other…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Science
"Consider with Whom You Are Working": Discourse Models of School Librarianship in Collaboration
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Kimmel, Sue C. – School Library Media Research, 2011
The question of why school librarians still struggle to fully enact the roles defined in "Information Power" and "Empowering Learners" may be viewed as a struggle to gain recognition from others that this is what a "real school librarian" does. Discourse Analysis offers school library research a new theoretical and analytical tool to explore how…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Library Role, Stereotypes