Document Type
Book Chapter
Original Publication Date
2015
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Skills to Make a Librarian: Transferable Skills Inside and Outside the Library, by Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen (ed.)
First Page
155
Last Page
174
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-100063-2.00014-4
Date of Submission
May 2016
Abstract
Most librarians are required to take classes on reference, collection development, and information organization in library school; courses on pedagogy, on the other hand, are usually optional, if they’re offered at all. This leads most librarians who end up with instruction duties to learn on the job. Activities and assessments can be learned on the fly fairly easily, but these often have little to no bearing on how much students actually absorb and recall weeks later because alone, they are usually insufficient to ensure deep learning. This chapter seeks to add the basics of pedagogy, a subject comprehensively covered in K-12 teacher preparation programs, to the librarian’s instructional repertoire.
Rights
© 2015. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Is Part Of
VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Included in
Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching Commons, Educational Methods Commons, Educational Psychology Commons, Higher Education and Teaching Commons, Library and Information Science Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
Comments
This is the manuscript version of the chapter "Pedagogy for Librarians," appearing in Skills to Make a Librarian: Transferable Skills Inside and Outside the Library. 2015. Cambridge, UK: Chandos.