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Presenting perspectives from Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S., this volume brings together a collection of essays from library and information science (LIS) educators from around the world who delve into difficult, unpopular, and uncommonly discussed topics.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Glories and Inglories of Library and Information Science Pedagogy
Kim M. Thompson and Keren Dali
Chapter 1. Performing Librarianship: Practicing the Reference Interview and Building Community through Improvisation.
Sarah Beth Nelson and Emily Vardell
Chapter 2. Nice to Have, a Distraction from the Core Curriculum, or a Disruptive Element? A Teaching Journey through Three Common Perceptions of Social Justice in LIS Education
Briony Birdi
Chapter 3. We, Who Cannot Unlearn: (Un)Learning and Disabled Faculty in American (Post)Pandemic Academia
Keren Dali and Paul T. Jaeger
Chapter 4. "The Pandemic Has Forced Us All to Become Professionals Again": Adjunct Faculty Advocacy at a Canadian ALA-Accredited iSchool
Max Dionisio
Chapter 5. Teaching for Intellectual Humility
Tim Gorichanaz
Chapter 6. The Difficulty of Training Students to Do Research in Tangles of Discourses: A Case of a Postgraduate Dissertation Project
Liangzhi Yu and Xiaofei Yan
Chapter 7. Overwhelmed or Overteaching? Humanism for Time Use and Pedagogy
Kim M. Thompson
Chapter 8. The Academia-Practice Gap: It Takes Two to Tango
Keren Dali
Chapter 9. "I Feel Like an ATM Machine": Mentoring, LIS Research, and Academic Capitalism
Jenny Bossaller
Chapter 10. The Way of WalDorF: Fostering Creativity in LIS Programs
Keren Dali
Chapter 11. Tales from Three Countries and One Academia: Academic Faculty in the Time of the Pandemic
Keren Dali, Nadia Caidi, Kim M. Thompson, and Jane Garner
Chapter 12. Transitioning to Postgraduate Distance Learning: Student Experiences of Change and Success
Anne Goulding and Guanzheng Li
Epilogue: Concluding the (In)glorious Journey
Keren Dali and Kim M. Thompson
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
About the author
Edited by Keren Dali and Kim M. Thompson
Summary
Presenting perspectives from Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S., this volume brings together a collection of essays from library and information science (LIS) educators from around the world who delve into difficult, unpopular, and uncommonly discussed topics.
