-Dianne McAfee Hopkins has been an advocate for the freedom to read and has encouraged, as stated in her contribution to the fifth edition of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Manual, library Media Specialists to take care and uphold the rights of intellectual freedom in our free society. She has encouraged the SLMS to evolve with the rest of the teaching community and recognize that each child is different as a learner and a human being by bringing a multi-dimentional approach to their role as the SLMS.
-She has also sought to empower the SLMS with material issues by encouraging them to seek out support for the issues in the library
(context: In the figure, Hopkins presents the thinking of a SLMS and the way that thinking along with the gathering of support/lack of support may resolve itself in either the retention, restriction, or removal of materials.)
This is great research about seeing the child as an individual with differences and seeing ways to reach each one.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting and well organized.