Prime minister Stefan Löfven wants to make it easier for the graduates to become teachers. But there is another, untapped, academic group in the school right now: skolbibliotekarierna. It is time to further define our mission and allow us to be a part of the solutions in more areas than reading.
Astrid Lindgren is right in saying that ” children create miracles when they read”. It is not just a subjective statement of one of the world’s foremost authors of children’s literature; the possibilities of reading is as many as there are books. Benefits of reading children have are many and affect the social life, personal development, the chances to succeed in society as well as their own goals and much more.
the right to have Astrid Lindgren’s formulation of what we know to be true about reading basis when he is in the r egeringsförklaringen defined it as a political goal to increase the number of trained librarians in schools.
But school librarians can create more miracles than that!
I read last semester in a library and informationsvetenskaplig a master’s degree. About five months I am one of the trained librarians Löfven wants to be out there among the Swedish students. I can not wait. Both after to be the one who puts the right book in the hand of a student in order to encourage the love of reading and läsflyt. But also after that get to be something more to Swedish schools than ”just” litteraturfrämjare.
for the graduates to choose the teaching profession, as a response to low antagningsnivåer at the teacher training colleges. I am also academics, and are out among the students of even shorter-term – to give me more to do!
Slowly, but surely, becomes the school library is a matter of course at schools around the country. In the latest update of the education act, it has been made clear that all students should have access to such. The revised curriculum which became mandatory from July last year states that the school library to be used in teaching to strengthen students ‘ ”linguistic and digital competence”.
today, just as I, also informationsvetare. We have studied the effects and causes of society’s various systems for categorizing and cataloguing. Better than the other, we shall be able to understand and explain today’s information society. The conditions are that give concrete assignments to the school librarians related other than literature and reading.
In several of the objectives that line up in the regeringsförklaringen had the library been able to be a part of the solution: for an increased kunskapsfokus in the schools, the strengthening of special and resursskolor, a more effective integration, increased equivalence in the school, etc.
the untapped resource that in many cases do a tremendous job with the schools Video: highlights as important, but without that the mission is adequately defined from the top down.
It is time for the government to clarify what it is I should do in my future profession. I do not want my and my colleagues’, duties shall be based on guesses about where resources are needed.
But the point was clear!
I can and want to be an integral part of the Swedish school policy in more areas than reading. For just as Stefan Löfven mentioned so grows people with high demands and great opportunities.
