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Leading with love and hospitality: applying a radical pedagogy to LIS

Leading with love and hospitality: applying a radical pedagogy to LIS This paper aims to suggest that classroom instructors should reflect and revise their pedagogy to lead a classroom designed to produce future information professionals who will be prepared to serve their communities in a radical way.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews the literature related to radical and humanizing pedagogies and then features an auto ethnographic case study which details how the author implemented some of the strategies.FindingsFormal study of pedagogy can improve the library and information science (LIS) teaching and learning process.Practical implicationsExamining pedagogy in a formal way yields concrete suggestions for improving classroom management and content delivery.Social implicationsUsing a radical pedagogy can improve relationships between teachers and learners, and learners will be able to model the classroom strategies in their own professional practice.Originality/valueThe study builds upon current examples of radical practice in the field and examines how such practices can be instilled even earlier in LIS graduate classrooms. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Information and Learning Science Emerald Publishing

Leading with love and hospitality: applying a radical pedagogy to LIS

Cooke, Nicole A.
Information and Learning Science , Volume 120 (1/2): 14 – Jan 23, 2019
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Emerald Publishing
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2398-5348
DOI
10.1108/ils-06-2018-0054
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This paper aims to suggest that classroom instructors should reflect and revise their pedagogy to lead a classroom designed to produce future information professionals who will be prepared to serve their communities in a radical way.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews the literature related to radical and humanizing pedagogies and then features an auto ethnographic case study which details how the author implemented some of the strategies.FindingsFormal study of pedagogy can improve the library and information science (LIS) teaching and learning process.Practical implicationsExamining pedagogy in a formal way yields concrete suggestions for improving classroom management and content delivery.Social implicationsUsing a radical pedagogy can improve relationships between teachers and learners, and learners will be able to model the classroom strategies in their own professional practice.Originality/valueThe study builds upon current examples of radical practice in the field and examines how such practices can be instilled even earlier in LIS graduate classrooms.

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Information and Learning Science – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jan 23, 2019

Keywords: Pedagogy; Graduate education; Autoethnography; Library and information science; Teaching and learning; Humanizing pedagogies

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