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Main Author: Jones, Joanna
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1994
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED382926
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contents The Teacher-Librarian Partnership in a Literature-Based Approach. Jones, Joanna Elementary Education Elementary School Teachers Librarian Teacher Cooperation Librarians Library Role Reading Research Teacher Behavior A year-long study focused on how the teacher-librarian partnership was enacted within different elementary school contexts where there is a literature-based approach for instruction. Teachers and librarians at two schools were observed for a total of 392 hours. Purposeful conversations to gather information or interviews were employed in conjunction with the observation. Eight theoretical constructs emerged from data analysis: (1) partnership events occurred in three ways--purposeful, springboard, and accidental; (2) partnerships supported literature-based instruction; (3) to survive, partnerships must have evidenced support, maintenance, and reward; (4) technology expanded teacher-librarian partnership possibilities; (5) contextual constraints or barriers existed which impeded teacher-librarian partnerships; (6) literature-based instruction had different meanings to different practitioners; (7) literature-based instruction was distinguished from whole language by practitioners; and (8) literature-based approaches were limited by and confounded with skills approaches, district expectations, and eclectic methods. Findings address how the teacher-librarian partnership evolves in the elementary school curriculum and how the teacher-librarian partnership is enacted. (Contains 19 references.) (RS)
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spellingShingle The Teacher-Librarian Partnership in a Literature-Based Approach.
Jones, Joanna
Elementary Education
Elementary School Teachers
Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Librarians
Library Role
Reading Research
Teacher Behavior
The Teacher-Librarian Partnership in a Literature-Based Approach. Jones, Joanna Elementary Education Elementary School Teachers Librarian Teacher Cooperation Librarians Library Role Reading Research Teacher Behavior A year-long study focused on how the teacher-librarian partnership was enacted within different elementary school contexts where there is a literature-based approach for instruction. Teachers and librarians at two schools were observed for a total of 392 hours. Purposeful conversations to gather information or interviews were employed in conjunction with the observation. Eight theoretical constructs emerged from data analysis: (1) partnership events occurred in three ways--purposeful, springboard, and accidental; (2) partnerships supported literature-based instruction; (3) to survive, partnerships must have evidenced support, maintenance, and reward; (4) technology expanded teacher-librarian partnership possibilities; (5) contextual constraints or barriers existed which impeded teacher-librarian partnerships; (6) literature-based instruction had different meanings to different practitioners; (7) literature-based instruction was distinguished from whole language by practitioners; and (8) literature-based approaches were limited by and confounded with skills approaches, district expectations, and eclectic methods. Findings address how the teacher-librarian partnership evolves in the elementary school curriculum and how the teacher-librarian partnership is enacted. (Contains 19 references.) (RS)
title The Teacher-Librarian Partnership in a Literature-Based Approach.
topic Elementary Education
Elementary School Teachers
Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Librarians
Library Role
Reading Research
Teacher Behavior
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED382926