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The impact of using book clubs among female teachers in their professional development in Saudi Arabia

open access: yesCogent 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
doaj   +4 more sources

Incorporating Online and In-person Book Clubs into Sociology Courses [PDF]

open access: yesTeaching Sociology, 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.
Sarah Bowen
exaly   +3 more sources

Book Clubs As Means of Reducing Library Anxiety

open access: yesJournal 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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Fostering the Love of Reading: Dynamics and Sustainability of Book Clubs in Indonesian Universities

open access: yesLingua Cultura, 2023
The research aimed to reveal the dynamics of the book clubs that the researchers started with and for Indonesian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students at the university level, as well as the club's impacts on students' learning.
Irfan Rifai   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Using Book Clubs to Support Inquiry in Teacher Education

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Together We Read, Together We Learn: Examining Book Clubs as a Means of Connecting LIS to a Feminist Diversity Ethic

open access: yesThe 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Book Clubs and Book Commerce

open access: yes, 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.
C. Norrick-Rühl
openaire   +3 more sources

Back to the Future: Library Book Clubs for Individuals with Intellectual Disability (ID)

open access: yesThe International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2019
This article provides context for library services for individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and then provides a case study and preliminary data on new efforts in the field for public libraries, school media centers, and academic libraries ...
Matthew Conner, Leah Plocharczyk
doaj   +2 more sources

ANTI-COLONIAL BOOK CLUBS

open access: yesArt/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
doaj   +1 more source

What if they are set free? Using Autonomous Reading-Listening and Book Clubs in Reading Fluency Development

open access: yesTeaching English as a Second or Foreign Language Journal--TESL-EJ, 2022
Recent research has shown that reading and listening together can be helpful in developing EFL reading fluency, but learner-autonomous bimodal reading research remains scarce.
A. H. Isozaki
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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