SCHOOL LIBRARIES: READING & LITERACIES

BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS

NAME/ COUNTRY

FUNCTIONS

ALICIA REY -

SPAIN

She manages information services, libraries, and digital literacy programs for adults, information literacy for primary and secondary schools. And she provides training for librarians and teachers.

AI KATERINI ARAMPATZI -

GREECE

She is a Greek language instructor and is responsible for the development of school library media programs for special education schools, as well as on the use of the “Easy-to-read” method and the subsequent development of educational material for students with disabilities.

JOËL NAVARRO -

FRANCE

He is a documentalist teacher, who participates in students’ and teachers’ researches in the documentation center almost daily. He participates in all learning and reading projects as well.

ISABELLE BENOIT-BERTRAND

- FRANCE

As a teacher- librarian, she is in charge of students and help them regularly with their research for information and materials for their work according to their school program. She is also helping them to access culture and develop their reading skills as well as promote novels in collaboration with my different colleagues in different subjects. She is deeply involved in the regional librarian network.

SONJA SLOTEMA SNIJDERS -

THE NETHERLANDS

She works at a school for disabled children, who are both physically and mentally handicapped. Her work mainly consists of providing pedagogical and didactic support for teachers. Her expertise is in language development, reading, and behavior.

DERYA ARSLAN -

TURKEY

Her study area is training primary school teachers especially in literacy. She has been vice president of the Educational Science Department since 2009. She is ECTS coordinator of Department.

KAGAN KESKIN HASAN

– TURKEY

He is a headmaster assistant at a school for deaf students. He has been working as a teacher trainer in New Educational Programmes.

HORST WEISS -

GERMANY

His school is one of the two so-called Elite Schule des Wintersports. As assistant headmaster he is in charge of the organization of the educational processes at his school. He is also concerned with the handling and coaching of the about 80 athletes who attend his school.

TIMO KEMPPINEN -

FINLAND

He is a member of the School Library Development Team in Kuopio. He is the headmaster of Pirtti Primary School (437 pupils) in Kuopio. According to the latest PISA results, girls have better reading skills than boys. The gender gap has even widened in many countries since 2000. This is mirrored in a decline of boys’ enjoyment of reading and their engagement with reading in their leisure time. In this study visit he hopes to find new tools to encourage reading for pleasure, to develop methodologies to get boys to read more and to arrange the possibility to study information management skills, which forms a basis for lifelong learning.

RUTH HUTCHINSON

- NORTHERN IRELAND

She is a Learning Resources Manager of the Northern Regional College. She is responsible for the management of the 7 campus libraries and 20 members of library staff. Her role includes the promotion of literacy and information skills among students and the encouragement of independent learning. She also advises teaching staff on the purchasing of learning resource materials. She is responsible for the library budget and for ensuring that the library provision reflects the priorities set by Government policy.

ANTONIA RIZZI

- ITALY

She teaches Italian, Latin, Greek, History and Geography in a public high school. She has been in charge of the school library, which is part of a network of public libraries, since 2007.

BRITT DAHLSTRÖM -

SWEDEN

Children´s librarian. She works with different reading support activities for different ages. She presents literature for children, teachers and parents. She is responsible for a school library centre, which means that they support several small school libraries