Can librarians become consultant tutors

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Can librarians become consultant tutors?

• Carol Webb
• Canterbury Christ Church University
• March 2006

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Year 13 Session content
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Action Research
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Use of Information Sources
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Student opinion of the library session
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Some observations from the data

• Environment from passive to active
• Session style communal see other peoples
  thinking
• Transfer of learning between subjects
• Changing pedagogy

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Issues

• Emotion
• Collaboration
• Divergent thinking
• Identity
• Change

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Outcomes and next steps

• INSET for R.E. staff address research homeworks
  and to introduce a focus on skills at KS4.
• Provision of input to
• A level History
• Report on research to all Sixthform teachers.

• Further research
• into the change process and how it affects the
  role of librarian.
• Comparison between the picture in Stenhouses
  research and the present situation.

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Bibliography

• Rudduck, J. and Hopkins, D. (1984) The sixthform
  and libraries. British Library and Information
  Research Report 24.
• Todd, R. (2005) Ohio Research Study
  http//www.oelma.org/studentlearning/default.asp
• Wenger, E. (1998) Communites of practice
  learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge
  University Press.