Invisible care? The role of librarians in caring for the ‘whole pupil’ in secondary schools

Shaper, Sue; Streatfield, David

doi:10.1080/02643944.2011.651225

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“…Pastoral care refers to the social, emotional, and psychological support librarians provide patrons along with more explicit professional duties, such as collection development, programming, and outreach (Shaper and Streatfield 2012). For many young adults, the library and its staff not only support educational and leisure needs, but they also offer support for the developmental needs of young adults (Agosto and Abbas 2009;Braun et al 2014).…”

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“…For many young adults, the library and its staff not only support educational and leisure needs, but they also offer support for the developmental needs of young adults (Agosto and Abbas 2009;Braun et al 2014). While the pastoral role is largely invisible, it is especially important for children and young adult patrons (Shaper and Streatfield 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Along with exploring librarians' current use of social media for libraries, another intent of this study's research questions is to explore pastoral care as it relates to libraries and librarianship. Prior to this study, only one other study has discussed the pastoral role of librarians (Shaper and Streatfield 2012).…”

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“…Pastoral care, investigated in depth in this study, is one professional role that has the potential to be expressed through social media. This term refers to the social, emotional, and psychological support librarians provide patrons along with more visible roles such as collection development, programming, and readers' advisory (Shaper and Streatfield 2012). More recently, the pastoral role of school librarians has been investigated, but only as an accidental finding of a larger study (Shaper and Streatfield 2012).…”

Section: Pastoral Care In Lismentioning

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“…Library and information studies has long supported the idea of the library as a safe space and librarians as a source of emotional, psychological, and social support for young patrons (Cronin 2001;Jones 2004;Jurkowski 2006 and Streatfield (2012). Parents, teachers, school administrators, and the community often overlook this "one-on-one pastoral engagement" between librarians and young patrons (Shaper and Streatfield 2012, 68).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Facebooking It: Promoting Library Services to Young Adults through Social Media

Phillips

2015

Public Library Quarterly

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Abstract:With social media a normal part of the daily lives of young adults, librarians are using these sites to promote library services. This paper investigates the perceptions and attitudes of librarians towards social media as a tool for libraries; and explores the way librarians utilize social media to portray professional roles and responsibilities to young patrons. This author focuses on the pastoral role of librarians and discusses possibilities for performing this role through social media. Although presently under-researched, social media provides librarians with one more avenue to advocate for, engage with and support young adults.

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Section: Significance Of Researchmentioning

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Section: Significance Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pastoral Care In Lismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pastoral Care In Lismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Facebooking It: Promoting Library Services to Young Adults through Social Media

Phillips

2015

Public Library Quarterly

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‘Who cares?’ Gender, care and secondary schooling: ‘Accidental findings’ from a seclusion unit

Barker

2019

British Educational Res J

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A breadth of research explores gendered professional identities, practices and spaces across a range of UK educational institutions. One focus has been on links between gender, care and education in early years settings and primary schools, although less attention has been given to caring within secondary schools. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in London within an in‐school seclusion unit, this article brings together a Lefebvrian conceptualisation of space with feminist theorisations of care to explore how the unit (conceived as a space of control, discipline and punishment) also became an unlikely space of care. In doing so, the article explores complex intersections between gender and care and how everyday caring practices in schools are inextricably linked to and embedded within broader institutional and spatial agendas and processes.

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