CURRICULAR APPROACH TO SCHOOL LIBRARIES

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Marija Erl Šafar

Dinka Kovačević

Jasmina Lovrinčević

Towards curriculum guidelines in general

1) Development and educational system plan (2005)

2) Croatian national educational system (HNOS)(2005/2006)

3) National curriculum frameworks

• State target: education quality in Croatia

• State target: “school aligned to students”

• State target: competentional approach; the main target are learning results

Where are school libraries in those important documents ???

Do they have their role in the KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY???

??

• Commitees which made the documents did not include school librarians

• In the original versions of the documents, school libraries are merely mentioned or are not mentioned at all

• The commitees did not have information how and in which way school libraries really work

Is there a curricular approach to education program in school

libraries??? Or : Who made it and who wrote it

down???

The curricular approach to education program in school

libraries exists since the 1980’sauthors are school librarians -

practitioners

The role of school library in school programs

• To provide wide range of educational technologies in order to offer retrieval possibilities

• To provide materials, to create original works• To organize data and solve problems• To help and organize interdisciplinary learning• To offer programs for professional training of teachers (according to the

new working methods)• Continuous modernization of library collections• To help cooperation between different schools concerning similar

programs and needs• To help students in learning and writing papers

Shaw (1999)

Croatian school librarianship

• Transformation of school libraries into Library-information centres – the project led by Veselko Veljčić, National and University Library, Zagreb, 1982

• Multimedia orientated school libraries – in sense of spatial organisation to collection management/development

• Development of new activities (students´ teaching programs)

The beginnings of the curriculum approach in the Croatian school libraries:

• Learning based on the knowledge resources

• Adjustment to different Adjustment to different learning styleslearning styles

• Intermedia approach to Intermedia approach to learning learning

• Higher learning results Higher learning results achieved by research and achieved by research and multimedia learning multimedia learning

• Development of the Development of the students’ creativitystudents’ creativity

MMC GGŠ Osijek 1984.

•Audio and video materials•Photos•Documentaries• Films •Exhibitions•Internet

Three important educational achievements taught only by libraries

• Information literacy

• “Guided inquiry”(Kuhlthau model)

• Correlations (working on projects)

The basis of acquisition of the life-long learning concept

Papers

“Spring school of school librarians” Proceedings (Crikvenica 91./92. – Rijeka, 1993.)

• Lasić-Lazić, J. Školska knjižnica i mogućnosti razvoja samostalnog istraživačkog rada učenika

• Staničić, S. Stručno-razvojne službe u školi i školska knjižnica• Šeta, V. Metodologija istraživanja i izrada učeničkih radova• Karbić, T. Uloga BIC-a u primjeni televizije zatvorenog kruga i video-

rekordera u odgojno-obrazovnom procesu• Pavešić, M. Miroslav Krleža – uz 100-tu obljetnicu rođenja (izložba)• Jednačak, J. Stari prostor, stare knjige –nove zavjese, nove brige

video zapis o školskim knjižnicama Općine Sisak• Križ, J. Strukturiranje programskih odrednica kulturne i javne

djelatnosti školske knjižnice• Šeta, V. Biblija – označitelj kulturne funkcije školske knjižnice• Laszlo, M. Računalna pismenost u školskoj knjižnici

Research results show...

• important role of a librarian in teaching information literacy and guided inquiry

• importance of pedagogic and curricular approach to education process in school library

• that school libraries are prepared to participate in modern learning approaches

Conclusion /1

• School librarians are the first within the school (and the system) who thought through and applied curricular approach to education

• Already in the 1980s there were many professional and scientific papers

• School librarians are the authors of the document “Library-information education in primary and high

school” which is a supplement to the “Proposal of the Strategy for the creation and development of the National curriculum frameworks for preschool and compulsory, and universal secondary education“

Conclusion /2

1. School librarians in Croatia are thoroughly prepared for the changes brought by modern times

2. School libraries competently take over the responsibility of adjustment to new ways of learning

3. School libraries emphasize pedagogic approaches, qualitative methodic- and educative role which are all part of the curricular approach to the education programs within school libraries

Sources • Strategija za izradbu i razvoj Nacionalnog okvirnog kurikuluma

za predškolski odgoj i opće obvezno obrazovanje u osnovnoj i srednjoj školi. Zagreb: Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa, 2007.

• Prijedlozi školskih knjižničara za izmjene i nadopune Prijedloga nacionalnog okvirnog kurikuluma za predškolski odgoj i opće obvezno obrazovanje u osnovnoj i srednjoj školi (usuglašeno na sastanku 19. ožujka 2009. godine u Školi za cestovni promet u Zagrebu)

• Nastavni plan i program za osnovnu školu. Zagreb : Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa, 2006.

• Funda, Dragutin. Potpuno upravljanje kvalitetom u obrazovanju. Zagreb: Kigen, 2008.

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