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A room with a view: looking at school library instruction from a higher education perspective.
Author: Gordon, Carol A. Source: Knowledge Quest v. 30 no4 (Mar./Apr. 2002) p. 16-21 ISSN: 1094-9046 Number: BLIB02004246 Copyright: The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited.
Whether our students are sitting in a fifth-grade classroom or an undergraduate lecture hall, invisible yet strictly enforced boundaries define the learning. The view that sits outside the classroom window is not just for daydreaming--it is, albeit small, a part of the business of life. School, according to John Dewey is not:.
to prepare the child for any particular business, but ... there should be a natural connection of the everyday life of the child with the business environment about him, and ... it is the affair of the school to clarify and liberalize this connection, to bring it to consciousness.(FN1).
For the child, school is life itself, and learning is an end in itself. As librarians, we think o