ERIC Number: EJ970024
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 47
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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.)
Descriptors: Library Education, Graduate Students, Elementary Secondary Education, School Libraries, Grade 5, Librarians, Skill Development, Case Studies, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Partnerships in Education, Models, Reflection, Higher Education, Elementary School Students
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
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Language: English
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