School libraries promoting readers, values, literacies, skills and inclusion

Portugal, Italy, Greece and Poland form a partnership to foster the cultural and transforming power of the book and libraries in their schools, and the development of associated literacies, trying to promote the reading skill as access for all knowledge and therefore as a key factor for inclusion and exercise of full citizenship. Four librarian teachers and four teachers of a school library (IT) and about 25 teachers are directly involved in this project – Erasmus Teams. This project will directly cover 2000 students aged between 12 and 15 years old, and all users served by school libraries, students, teachers, families and community.

This project offers us an opportunity to work with organizations from other countries, to learn about their practices for promoting reading in the classroom and in their libraries. It will bring a formative contribution and professional enrichment to the teachers involved and will promote quality at different levels and areas of education in the field of reading, literacies and collaboration, reinforcing the role of libraries in order to allow students the opportunity to develop 21st-century skills. Our goal is to learn about the good practices of school libraries in different educational systems, their connection to the school curriculum and learning and the way they are organized to create conditions of access and opportunities of learning for all. As a result, the partner libraries will have to promote collaborative actions that meet with the school curriculum of their schools and improve news and the best practices on our educational organizations.

 

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