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Pedagogy For Critical Reflection In Librarianship: A Suggested Methodology And Syllabus For Teaching Autoethnography And Self-Reflection, Richard A. Stoddart
Pedagogy For Critical Reflection In Librarianship: A Suggested Methodology And Syllabus For Teaching Autoethnography And Self-Reflection, Richard A. Stoddart
Rick A Stoddart
Academic librarianship has an intimate association with narratives and stories in their traditional role in curating, caring for, and making collections accessible. Librarians also experience the intricacies and challenges of narrative inquiry through the qualitative research they undertake, oral histories they gather, reflective teaching practices they facilitate, and oral-traditions they interact with. Despite these intersections with reflection and narrative, academic librarianship, (and library sciences as a whole), have not fully incorporated their own narrative(s) within their professional practice(s). Academic librarianship has the ability but not the spaces to critically reflect in a holistic manner. Shadiow (2013) encourages us all to …