Call for papers n.197 (2024)
The School Library and its educational role in initial and in-service training for teachers of all school levels. Analysis, proposals, perspectives
"It has been demonstrated that, when librarians and teachers work together, students achieve higher levels of literacy in reading, learning, problem-solving, and skills related to information and communication technologies" (IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto. The school library in teaching and learning for all).
In our country, the Innovative School Library (BSI) is receiving increasing attention, particularly since the specific designation given to it with #Action 24, as part of the PNSD (October 2015), following the law of July 13, 2015, No. 107, and the related initiatives that have promoted and/or confirmed its development.
Training activities are being carried out through the BSI Networks, now consolidated also thanks to the funding provided by the MI and the MIC, or by both ministries, since the PNSD, both to raise awareness among school principals about the importance of the educational role of the school library, and to enable teachers responsible for managing this fundamental educational space of the School to acquire the necessary skills to perform their tasks efficiently and effectively.
The school library is, in fact, an educational environment that must be managed by qualified and dedicated personnel, capable of effectively promoting reading and research activities, in both traditional and digital contexts, aimed at continuous improvement in teaching and learning processes, for the educational success and personal development of students, starting from the early grades of their schooling.
However, in our country, there is a lack of specific academic teaching that allows future teachers to acquire the basic skills necessary to establish/maintain and/or develop the fundamental space for reading and research constituted by the school library.
What measures should be implemented to allow future teachers to receive this training, pending the legal recognition of the figure of the school librarian-teacher?
Deadlines:
- Submission of an abstract of about 600 (six hundred) characters, including spaces, with the relevant keywords, in Italian ( or in original language) and English (including name and surname, institution/university affiliation, institutional email address) by August 30, 2024, to: donatella.lombello@unipd.it; carla.xodo@unipd.it; aspeinazionale@gmail.com.
- Submission of contributions in the form of an essay of at least 25,000 (twenty-five thousand) characters, including spaces, by October 10, 2024, to: donatella.lombello@unipd.it; carla.xodo@unipd.it; aspeinazionale@gmail.com.
- The contributions will be evaluated through a peer reviewing process in a double-blind mode: deadline for any changes requested by referees: November 10, 2024.
- Publication date: December 31, 2024.
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