Transforming Academic Library Instruction
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Transforming Academic Library Instruction

Shifting Teaching Practices to Reflect Changed Perspectives

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eBook - ePub

Transforming Academic Library Instruction

Shifting Teaching Practices to Reflect Changed Perspectives

About this book

Academic librarians working in instruction are at the crux of professional, higher educational, and societal change. While they work with disciplinary faculty to ensure learners are critical information consumers and producers in 21st century ways, how do academic librarians develop a sense of their own identities as post-secondary instructors? Using both broad and in-depth data from practicing instruction librarians, this book identifies the catalysts and influences in academic librarians' perspective development process. From these factors, then, instruction librarians and librarians-to-be can hone their own instructional identities and transform their teaching practices.

This focus on understanding this perspective transformation process around instructional identities offers both working academic librarians and LIS graduate students an innovative way to think about their roles as educators. While many books explore the practical or how-to aspects of teaching in libraries, Transforming Academic Librarianship: How to Hone Your Instructional Identity and Adopt Best Teaching Practice takes a step up and examines how academic librarians think about or approach instruction as a part of their work. Through explicating this metacognitive process, this book helps both academic librarians and librarians-to-be to more intentionally consider their teaching practices and professional identities.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Series Editor’s Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Part I: Academic Librarians, Transformation, and Information Literacy Instruction
  6. Chapter 1: Academic Librarians, Instruction, and Teaching Identities
  7. Chapter 2: Transformative Learning Theory
  8. Part II: Catalysts and Factors in Perspective Transformation
  9. Chapter 3: How Teaching Transformation Begins
  10. Chapter 4: How Teaching Transformation Develops
  11. Chapter 5: How Teaching Transformation Develops
  12. Chapter 6: How Teaching Transformation Develops
  13. Chapter 7: How Teaching Transformation Develops
  14. Part III: Transformative Outcomes in Teaching
  15. Chapter 8: Teaching Transformation in Practice
  16. Chapter 9: Transforming Teaching in the Future
  17. Appendix A
  18. Appendix B
  19. Appendix C
  20. Bibliography
  21. About the Author