1. CURRICULAR APPROACH TO SCHOOL LIBRARIES EDUCATION PROGRAM Marija Erl Šafar Dinka Kovačević Jasmina Lovrinčević

2. Towards curriculum guidelines in general 1)Development and educational system plan (2005) 2)Croatian national educational system (HNOS)(2005/2006) 3) National curriculum frameworks State target: education quality in Croatia State target: “school aligned to students” State target: competentional approach; the main target are learning results

3. Where are school libraries in those important documents ??? Do they have their role in the KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY???

4. ?? Commitees which made the documents did not include school librarians In the original versions of the documents, school libraries are merely mentioned or are not mentioned at all The commitees did not have information how and in which way school libraries really work

5. Is there a curricular approach to education program in school libraries??? Or : Who made it and who wrote it down???

6. The curricular approach to education program in school libraries exists since the 1980’s authors are school librarians - practitioners

7. The role of school library in school programs To provide wide range of educational technologies in order to offer retrieval possibilities To provide materials, to create original works To organize data and solve problems To help and organize interdisciplinary learning To offer programs for professional training of teachers (according to the new working methods) Continuous modernization of library collections To help cooperation between different schools concerning similar programs and needs To help students in learning and writing papers Shaw (1999)

8. Croatian school librarianship Transformation of school libraries into Library-information centres – the project led by Veselko Veljčić, National and University Library, Zagreb, 1982 Multimedia orientated school libraries – in sense of spatial organisation to collection management/development Development of new activities (students´ teaching programs)

9. The beginnings of the curriculum approach in the Croatian school libraries: Learning based on the knowledge resources Adjustment to different learning stylesAdjustment to different learning styles Intermedia approach to learningIntermedia approach to learning Higher learning results achieved by research and multimedia learningHigher learning results achieved by research and multimedia learning Development of the students’ creativityDevelopment of the students’ creativity MMC GGŠ Osijek 1984. Audio and video materials Photos Document aries Films Exhibitions Internet

10. Three important educational achievements taught only by libraries Information literacy “Guided inquiry”( Kuhlthau model) Correlations (working on projects) The basis of acquisition of the life-long learning concept

11. Papers “Spring school of school librarians” Proceedings (Crikvenica 91./92. – Rijeka, 1993.) Lasić-Lazić, J. Školska knjižnica i mogućnosti razvoja samostalnog istraživačkog rada učenika Staničić, S. Stručno-razvojne službe u školi i školska knjižnica Šeta, V. Metodologija istraživanja i izrada učeničkih radova Karbić, T. Uloga BIC-a u primjeni televizije zatvorenog kruga i video- rekordera u odgojno-obrazovnom procesu Pavešić, M. Miroslav Krleža – uz 100-tu obljetnicu rođenja (izložba) Jednačak, J. Stari prostor, stare knjige –nove zavjese, nove brige video zapis o školskim knjižnicama Općine Sisak Križ, J. Strukturiranje programskih odrednica kulturne i javne djelatnosti školske knjižnice Šeta, V. Biblija – označitelj kulturne funkcije školske knjižnice Laszlo, M. Računalna pismenost u školskoj knjižnici

12. Research results show... important role of a librarian in teaching information literacy and guided inquiry importance of pedagogic and curricular approach to education process in school library that school libraries are prepared to participate in modern learning approaches

13. Conclusion /1 School librarians are the first within the school (and the system) who thought through and applied curricular approach to education Already in the 1980s there were many professional and scientific papers School librarians are the authors of the document “Library-information education in primary and high school” which is a supplement to the “Proposal of the Strategy for the creation and development of the National curriculum frameworks for preschool and compulsory, and universal secondary education“

14. Conclusion /2 1.School librarians in Croatia are thoroughly prepared for the changes brought by modern times 2.School libraries competently take over the responsibility of adjustment to new ways of learning 3.School libraries emphasize pedagogic approaches, qualitative methodic- and educative role which are all part of the curricular approach to the education programs within school libraries

15. Sources Strategija za izradbu i razvoj Nacionalnog okvirnog kurikuluma za predškolski odgoj i opće obvezno obrazovanje u osnovnoj i srednjoj školi. Zagreb: Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa, 2007. Prijedlozi školskih knjižničara za izmjene i nadopune Prijedloga nacionalnog okvirnog kurikuluma za predškolski odgoj i opće obvezno obrazovanje u osnovnoj i srednjoj školi (usuglašeno na sastanku 19. ožujka 2009. godine u Školi za cestovni promet u Zagrebu) Nastavni plan i program za osnovnu školu. Zagreb : Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa, 2006. Funda, Dragutin. Potpuno upravljanje kvalitetom u obrazovanju. Zagreb: Kigen, 2008.

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