CURRICULAR APPROACH TO SCHOOL LIBRARIES EDUCATION PROGRAM

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CURRICULAR APPROACH TO SCHOOL LIBRARIES
EDUCATION PROGRAM

• Marija Erl Šafar
• Dinka Kovacevic
• Jasmina Lovrincevic

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Towards curriculum guidelines in general

• Development and educational system plan (2005)
• 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
  

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Where are school libraries in those important
documents ???

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

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??

• 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

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Is there a curricular approach to education
program in school libraries???

• Or Who made it and who wrote it down???

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The curricular approach to education program in
school libraries exists since the 1980s

• authors are school librarians - practitioners

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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)

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Croatian school librarianship

• Transformation of school libraries into
  Library-information centres the project led by
  Veselko Veljcic, 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)

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The beginnings of the curriculum approach in the
Croatian school libraries

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

• Learning based on the knowledge resources
• Adjustment to different learning styles
• Intermedia approach to learning
• Higher learning results achieved by research and
  multimedia learning
• Development of the students creativity

MMC GGŠ Osijek 1984.
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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

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PapersSpring school of school librarians
Proceedings (Crikvenica 91./92. Rijeka, 1993.)

• Lasic-Lazic, J. Školska knjižnica i mogucnosti
  razvoja samostalnog istraživackog rada ucenika
• Stanicic, S. Strucno-razvojne službe u školi i
  školska knjižnica
• Šeta, V. Metodologija istraživanja i izrada
  ucenickih radova
• Karbic, T. Uloga BIC-a u primjeni televizije
  zatvorenog kruga i video-rekordera u
  odgojno-obrazovnom procesu
• Pavešic, M. Miroslav Krleža uz 100-tu
  obljetnicu rodenja (izložba)
• Jednacak, J. Stari prostor, stare knjige nove
  zavjese, nove brige video zapis o školskim
  knjižnicama Opcine Sisak
• Križ, J. Strukturiranje programskih odrednica
  kulturne i javne djelatnosti školske knjižnice
• Šeta, V. Biblija oznacitelj kulturne funkcije
  školske knjižnice
• Laszlo, M. Racunalna pismenost u školskoj
  knjižnici

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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

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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

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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

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Sources

• Strategija za izradbu i razvoj Nacionalnog
  okvirnog kurikuluma za predškolski odgoj i opce
  obvezno obrazovanje u osnovnoj i srednjoj školi.
  Zagreb Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i
  športa, 2007.
• Prijedlozi školskih knjižnicara za izmjene i
  nadopune Prijedloga nacionalnog okvirnog
  kurikuluma za predškolski odgoj i opce 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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