Radical School Librarianship

A Global Response
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78330-792-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Radical School Librarianship is an essential read for school librarians and educators looking to gain a better understanding of how to create environments where equality, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom (EDIIF) can thrive.

School librarians perform a critical and frontline role in defending EDIIF within their school communities. This comprehensive volume invites readers to learn from the experiences of school librarian leaders from around the globe in order to find inspiration, support, and strategies to continue promoting EDIIF. Each chapter addresses a particular way to take action. Bringing exemplary practices from Australia, Croatia, Ecuador, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, South Africa, Türkiye, the UK and US, chapters cover topics such as:

- how to best serve immigrant and refugee students;

- how to celebrate readers and reading LGBTQIA+ books and authors;

- how literacy is promoted within inequitable educational landscapes;

- how diversity and intellectual freedom are supported through book awards and social media;

- how librarians respond to changing social and political environments to ensure equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom in their learning communities.

Zielgruppe

Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moreillon, Judi

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Katy Manck Introduction Radical Equity 1. Radical Equity: Serving Immigrant and Refugee Students 2. Transforming Learning Through Technology: A Radical Vision for Equity Radical Diversity 3. Raising Awareness About Authentic Representation of Diversity in Children's Literature 4. Creating an Empathy-Educated Generation Radical Inclusion 5. Nothing About Them Without Them: An Inclusive Approach to Radical Youth Literacy in South Africa 6. Standing Together for Belonging: Leading with Library Policies Radical Intellectual Freedom 7. #ReadWithPride: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Fiction, Authors, and Readers 8. Why School Librarians Should Be Luddites Radical Learning Communities 9. Authentic Sense-Making with 4 More Cs: Conversation, Curiosity, Compassion, and Context 10. Enhancing Learning and Collaboration Through Librarian-Led Initiatives Afterword 11. A Radical Response: Going Forward

Über Autor(innen)

Judi Moreillon taught preservice school and public librarians for 25 years. She retired as an associate professor at Texas Woman's University, United States. For 13 years, she served as a school librarian at all three instructional levels: elementary, junior high, and high school. She has been a fifth-grade classroom teacher, elementary school literacy coach, and district-level K-12 librarian mentor. She has previously published professional books for school librarians and classroom teachers, including Core Values in School Librarianship and Maximizing School Librarian Leadership. In 2019, she earned the Scholastic Publishing Award.