Research on school library in Brazil: state of the art

• Autor(a) principal: Campello, Bernadete
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Caldeira, Paulo da Terra, Duarte, Adriana Bogliolo Sirihal, Araújo, Carlos Alberto Ávila, Carvalho, Maria da Conceição, Rodrigues, Mara Eliane Fonseca, Soares, Laura Valladares de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Encontros Bibli
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2013v18n37p123
• topic: Biblioteca escolar; Pesquisas em biblioteca escolar; Interação bibliotecário/professor; Estudos de usos e usuários; Biblioteca escolar- leitura; School library; Research on school library; Teacher/librarian collaboration; User studies; School library– Reading

The present study aimed to establish the state-of-the-art of the research on school library in Brazil, between 1975 and 2011, trying to identify: its subjects, theoretical foundations, methodology, results and conclusions. A documentary analysis was made, using seventy research reports on school library, divided into six categories of analysis: the school library as a learning space, integration of teacher/librarian, user studies, collection, reading and inquiry learning. The results revealed that exist an awareness of the need to secure the space of the library in the school, considering that it can contribute to the learning process. There is a bigger number of studies in the subject of reading, although there seems to be a trend in the increasing of inquiry learning topic. The studies on teacher/librarian collaboration reaffirmed the need of teacher/ librarian collaboration. User studies are still stuck with a traditional approach, failing to perform an effective dialogue with pedagogical issues. The methodologies of the studies were mostly qualitative and the theoretical foundations were weak, resulting from the lack of clarity of its use.