Category: School libraries
What Happens When Young People Actually Read “Disturbing” Books
Lost in the political battles over “educationally suitable” books is what actually happens when young people read. One side assumes students reading certain books will become traumatized, radicalized, or morally perverted, while the other argues...
Creating an Australian School Literacy Policy
Creating an Australian School Literacy Policy: A Research-Informed Guide to Designing a Policy That Fits Your School by Dr Margaret K Merga is the new go-to for creating effective and holistic literacy policy. Drawing on extensive analysis of...
Beyond Temporary Experts: Secondary Students’ Experiences in Autonomous Research
This qualitative case study explores the experiences of students in their final year of the International Baccalaureate as they prepared, researched, and completed their Extended Essay project - an autonomous research process which develops their...
Understanding the changing nature of information literacy in education
A recent study exploring how college students conceptualize the online information landscape has found that information literacy approaches relying upon a ‘static’ presentation of information, which is sought by the student, does not reflect the...