Teacher professionalism and school libraries: an open problem

Abstract

Why do the schools generally neglect educational projects focused on the pleasure of reading and on the function of school-libraries in didactical activities? This is the starting point of this paper. On the contrary, extra-school educational agencies – like libraries, publishers, cultural societies and so on – are very active in this field. At the same time, the author refers to some current experiences and defends the concrete educational role of school-libraries, proposing some modest expedients (stages, laboratories, co-presence lessons) in the professional teacher’s training curriculum, both for primary and high school. These modest strategies may be use-ful also in-service training for those teachers, who intend improve their skills and competences in this particular field, in the consciousness of their relevance in di-dactical projects and activities.