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The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2019 This article examines the significance of dialogic exploration of feminist and diversity-oriented texts in book clubs consisting of Library and Information Science (LIS) master’s students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Laila Brown
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, 2019 In the 20th century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Book Society or Bertelsmann Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, and shows that book clubs and book commerce are linked inextricably.
Corinna Norrick-Rühl
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Book Clubs As Means of Reducing Library Anxiety
Journal of New Librarianship, 2023 Utilization of library resources can make a major impact in academic success; however, library anxiety can inhibit students from being willing to access library resources. The present study investigates how book clubs influence library anxiety.
Jacob Lackner +2 more
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Cogent Education, 2022 Literature has extensively documented traditional conceptions of sustainable teacher professional development (PD). Recently, PD has promoted self-directed and small group opportunities that provide teachers with interactive and discussion-based social ...
Dalia Jamal Alghamdi
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Using Book Clubs to Support Inquiry in Teacher Education
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021 The bombardment of information on students in higher education has created a need for not only information processing skills but improved communicative competence and interpersonal relationship skills.
Patrick Dean Hales +2 more
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Art/Research International, 2021 What possibilities does reading anti-colonial and counternarrative fiction have? By “plugging in” Coloma’s constitutive subjectivities, Anzaldúa’s new consciousness, and Sumara’s embodied action, I share the possibilities with the explanation of an anti-
Shawna Carroll
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Incorporating Online and In-person Book Clubs into Sociology Courses. [PDF]
Teach Sociol, 2018 Previous research has examined the use of nontraditional readings, particularly fiction, as a tool for teaching sociological concepts. Few studies have specifically looked at nonfiction monographs and ethnographies.
Wyant A, Bowen S.
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Integrating DEI in Public Library Book Clubs
Journal of New LibrarianshipThe killing of George Floyd in 2020 propelled the Black Lives Matter movement into the global spotlight, calling attention to the racial inequities still persisting in America. In response, public libraries have hosted anti-racist book clubs as a way to
Wei Goh
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Neurodiverse youth book clubs for transformative and inclusive social emotional learning
Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and PolicyThis qualitative study explores the experiences of 10 neurodiverse adolescents who participated in youth-led book clubs at a specialized secondary school in Amsterdam.
Jody Polleck
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Saltwater Chronicles: reading representational spaces in selected book clubs in St. John's, Newfoundland [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2010 Saltwater Chronicles investigates the notion of “islandness” in contemporary Newfoundland readership through two in-depth case studies of book clubs as representational spaces in the elaboration of local knowledge and identities.
Jennifer Rottmann +2 more
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