Radical School Librarianship is an essential read for school librarians and educators looking to gain a better understanding of how to create environments where equality, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom (EDIIF) can thrive.
School librarians perform a critical and frontline role in defending EDIIF within their school communities. This comprehensive volume invites readers to learn from the experiences of school librarian leaders from around the globe in order to find inspiration, support, and strategies to continue promoting EDIIF. Each chapter addresses a particular way to take action. Bringing exemplary practices from Australia, Croatia, Ecuador, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, South Africa, Türkiye, the UK and US, chapters cover topics such as:
how to best serve immigrant and refugee students; how to celebrate readers and reading LGBTQIA+ books and authors; how literacy is promoted within inequitable educational landscapes; how diversity and intellectual freedom are supported through book awards and social media; how librarians respond to changing social and political environments to ensure equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom in their learning communities.
Foreword by Katy Manck
Introduction
Radical Equity
1. Radical Equity: Serving Immigrant and Refugee Students - Zalykha María
Mokim, Karin Bernal, and Judi Moreillon
2. Transforming Learning Through Technology: A Radical Vision for Equity -
Sevgi Arolu
Radical Diversity
3. Raising Awareness About Authentic Representation of Diversity in
Childrens Literature - Martha Itzcovitz and Kate Foster
4. Creating an Empathy-Educated Generation - Graham Fairweather
Radical Inclusion
5. Nothing About Them Without Them: An Inclusive Approach to Radical Youth
Literacy in South Africa - Vuyokazi Jamieson
6. Standing Together for Belonging: Leading with Library Policies - Patricia
Goering
Radical Intellectual Freedom
7. #ReadWithPride: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Fiction, Authors, and Readers - Kate
OConnor
8. Why School Librarians Should Be Luddites - Steve Tetreault
Radical Learning Communities
9. Authentic Sense-Making with 4 More Cs: Conversation, Curiosity,
Compassion, and Context - Suzanne Sannwald, Stephanie Macceca, and Anthony
Devine
10. Enhancing Learning and Collaboration Through Librarian-Led Initiatives -
Antonija Lujanac, Maria Fe Nicolau, Mayasari Abdul Majid, and Sophia V.
Adeyeye
Afterword
11. A Radical Response: Going Forward - Judi Moreillon
Judi Moreillon taught preservice school and public library librarians for twenty-five years. She retired as an associate professor at Texas Womans University, United States. For thirteen years, she served as a school librarian at all three instructional levels elementary, junior high, and high school. She has been a fifth-grade classroom teacher, elementary school literacy coach, and district-level K-12 librarian mentor. She has previously published four books, including Core Values in School Librarianship and Maximizing School Librarian Leadership. In 2019, she earned the Scholastic Publishing Award.
