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Radical School Librarianship is an essential read for school librarians and educators looking to gain a better understanding of how to create environments where equality, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom (EDIIF) can thrive.
School librarians perform a critical and frontline role in defending EDIIF within their school communities. This comprehensive volume invites readers to learn from the experiences of school librarian leaders from around the globe in order to find inspiration, support, and strategies to continue promoting EDIIF. Each chapter addresses a particular way to take action. Bringing exemplary practices from Australia, Croatia, Ecuador, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, South Africa, Türkiye, the UK and US, chapters cover topics such as:
- how to best serve immigrant and refugee students;
- how to celebrate readers and reading LGBTQIA+ books and authors;
- how literacy is promoted within inequitable educational landscapes;
- how diversity and intellectual freedom are supported through book awards and social media;
- how librarians respond to changing social and political environments to ensure equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom in their learning communities.
Radical School Librarianship is a truly international publication that should be required reading for all new and practicing school librarians. Written by authors from around the world and taking the stance that school librarians need to be warriors, this book explores essential topics such as empathy, inclusion, diversity, belonging, intellectual freedom, LGBTQIA+ fiction, authentic sense-making, collaboration, access to resources, and collections. The vignettes from school librarians provide real-world examples and ground the book in professional practice.
— Jennifer Branch-Mueller, President, International Association of School Librarianship
Judi Moreillon taught preservice school and public librarians for 25 years. She retired as an associate professor at Texas Woman’s University, United States. For 13 years, she served as a school librarian at all three instructional levels: elementary, junior high, and high school. She has been a fifth-grade classroom teacher, elementary school literacy coach, and district-level K-12 librarian mentor. She has previously published professional books for school librarians and classroom teachers, including Core Values in School Librarianship and Maximizing School Librarian Leadership. In 2019, she earned the Scholastic Publishing Award.
Foreword by Katy Manck
Introduction
Radical Equity
1. Radical Equity: Serving Immigrant and Refugee Students - Zalykha María Mokim, Karin Bernal, and Judi Moreillon
2. Transforming Learning Through Technology: A Radical Vision for Equity - Sevgi Arıoğlu
Radical Diversity
3. Raising Awareness About Authentic Representation of Diversity in Children’s Literature - Martha Itzcovitz and Kate Foster
4. Creating an Empathy-Educated Generation - Graham Fairweather
Radical Inclusion
5. Nothing About Them Without Them: An Inclusive Approach to Radical Youth Literacy in South Africa - Vuyokazi Jamieson
6. Standing Together for Belonging: Leading with Library Policies - Patricia Goering
Radical Intellectual Freedom
7. #ReadWithPride: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Fiction, Authors, and Readers - Kate O’Connor
8. Why School Librarians Should Be Luddites - Steve Tetreault
Radical Learning Communities
9. Authentic Sense-Making with 4 More Cs: Conversation, Curiosity, Compassion, and Context - Suzanne Sannwald, Stephanie Macceca, and Anthony Devine
10. Enhancing Learning and Collaboration Through Librarian-Led Initiatives - Antonija Lujanac, Maria Fe Nicolau, Mayasari Abdul Majid, and Sophia V. Adeyeye
Afterword
11. A Radical Response: Going Forward - Judi Moreillon