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ERIC Number: EJ970024
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 47
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-2165-1019
Retrospective Reflection: Insight into Pre-Service School Librarians' Competencies and Skill Development as Revealed through Field Notes
Stefl-Mabry, Joette; Dequoy, Elyse; Stevens, Sandra
School Library Research, v15 2012
This paper seeks to expand our understanding of how educators, and in particular school librarians, acquire and use professional-practice knowledge. This exploratory study, grounded in "lived practice" (Spillane, Hunt, and Healey, 2009) uses reflective analysis to amplify competencies and skill development in pre-service school library education. The project positions graduate students and fifth-grade students as teachers and learners, and challenges pre-service school librarians to learn to teach by reflecting upon professional practice during their field experience. In this case study pre-service school librarians reflect-in-action, reflect-on-action (D. Schon, 1987), and reflect-after-action (retrospective reflection) via the use of field notes, student work, interviews with Pre-K-12 students, and the development and implementation of formative and summative assessments as the pre-service school librarians worked together with fifth-graders on the design, development, and implementation of a technology-enhanced curriculum project. This study addresses the need, identified by scholars in this and related fields (Melser, 2004; Ravid and Handler, 2001), "to provide more information about the dynamics of collaboration" between university and school partnerships (Ravid and Handler, 2001, xi). (Contains 1 table, 1 figure and 1 footnote.)
American Association of School Librarians. Available from: American Library Association. 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 800-545-2433; Web site: http://www.ala.org/aasl/slmr
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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