Libraries
4 posts
“Hands-Off” Teaching: Facilitating Conversation as Pedagogy in Library Instruction
Critical Pedagogy
“Knowledge creation is a conversation.” — R. David Lankes “I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions — a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.” — bell hooks
Public Archives, New Knowledge, and Moving Beyond the Digital Humanities/Digital Pedagogy Distinction
Collaboration
Let’s stop talking about “students” as some undifferentiated mass or referring to “my students,” a phrase that smacks of proprietorship, and start giving them credit by name for the work they do
Librarian as Outsider
Academic Labor
Academic librarians are worried about power. And powerlessness. They are particularly concerned with the way power dynamics shape their identities as educators and inform their pedagogical capacity. Recent library scholarship has introduced a
LibGuides: Pedagogy to Oppress?
Libraries
You have to be a pretty tenacious researcher to find any criticism about LibGuides, the practical and convenient tool that librarians use to create online guides to research. My search for “LibGuides and