Encouraging and Supporting Student Inquiry
Researching Controversial Issues
Series: Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship
Harriet S. Selverstone
1-59158-496-5/978-1-59158-496-4
Description
Assignments that engage students in inquiry topics of their own choosing (often controversial) contribute to motivation and thus to learning. This practical book will discuss the processes, actions and policies needed to support and encourage high school students in that type of inquiry.
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Librarians will find this resource useful both for setting up lessons and inquiries into the topics listed and as a model for helping students to research other topics....Selverstone's guide is a sound purchase for school librarians and for public libraries serving high school populations.
—VOYA
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Selverstone gives sound advice for advocating inquiry-based research, especially for hot topics that are most interesting to students. She advises library media specialists on what constitutes controversial topics, how to collaborate with teachers to foster critical thinking, and how to gain administrative support for this kind of program research....[t]he philosophies and ideas presented make this book an ideal purchase to promote and foster collaboration with the school communities in which many of us work.
—School Library Journal
About the Author
Harriet S. Selverstone
is a retired high school library media specialist and Department Chair of the Library Media Department at Norwalk High School, Norwalk, CT. She is a former President of the American Association of School Librarians and two-term President of the Connecticut Educational Media Association. She served two terms on the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, and was Chair for several years of the Connecticut Educational Media Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee. She has authored chapters on censorship issues in two texts, Children and Books, HarperCollins, 1996 and Collection Management for School Library Media Centers, Haworth Press, Inc., 1985-86. She is Series Adviser to Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship Series. She received a Masters degree in Library Science, an Advanced Certificate in Information Management and an honorary doctorate degree from Pratt Institute.
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