In this study, I examine the ways in which undergraduate students acquire the discourses of their chosen major. In particular, I focus on the complementary contributions of faculty members and academic librarians in students' acquisition of disciplinary discourses. Grounded in genre theory and Gee's (1996) notion of primary and secondary discourses, the study highlights the complex processes that students undergo to acquire and internalize the discourse of an academic discipline. Using a qualitative case-study approach, I consider the interrelated experiences of five undergraduate students, three faculty members, and two librarians at a small liberal arts college in the Midwest. Data sources include students' written assignments gathered from their major coursework throughout their college careers; interviews with student participants, faculty members, and librarians; observational notes and transcripts of lectures in courses taught by professors from four courses; and course artifacts, including course syllabi and assignment sheets from the four courses. Data from this study highlight the complex matrix of influences undergraduate students experience as they acquire the specialized language of an academic discipline. My data provide insight into the ways in which some students are positioned to take up disciplinary discourses with ease while other students struggle to develop the same level of acquisition and academic fluency. I bring to light the instructional and institutional practices that facilitate student learning and document those instances where instructional opportunities were missed and where unwarranted assumptions compromised student learning. I conclude this study with series of recommendations, most notably, a greater participation by academic librarians in order to enhance the acquisition of disciplinary discourses for undergraduate students. Further, my data suggest that collaborative opportunities between and among faculty members and academic librarians are likely to enhance the effective teaching of disciplinary discourses. Because of librarians' role as simultaneous insiders and outsiders to the academic disciplines, they are uniquely well-positioned to assist students in acquiring the disciplinary discourses. This dissertation suggests that by making visible the cultural expectations and practices of academia, faculty members and librarians can collaborate to assist undergraduate students gain entry into the academic discourse community.

This thesis examines the way cooperation between the schools and   school libraries are described in the library plans in 21 of the municipalities in Sweden. Our selection has been based on geographical spreading. Our used method in this thesis is a content analysis, where both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used. In Sweden, primary school is mandatory and nine years ago it also became statutory for every school to have a school library. The law also says that the principal/head of the school has a responsibility to make sure a collaboration is even possible. Our research also shows that the principal's/head of the schools role is vital for how the collaboration will work. He or she can demand the staff to start working together or arrange for them to be able to get time to plan together. A number of research shows that it’s important with a collaboration between the schools and school libraries, the collaboration can improve the students' study results. It also highlights how the library plan can act as an important strategic document for the libraries. We have used Patricia Monitel-Overalls TLC-models (Teacher-Librarian-Collaboration) for our analysis. In our results we found that both the teachers and librarians often wanted to have a collaboration. Still, not many did and the most common reasons were that none of them really knew what to expect or demand of each other. Another reason was that the picture of what a library can offer and help with was very old fashioned. In other words, they did not know everything a librarian can do or how much the library could help. In conclusion, the library plans need to be more direct with how the schools and school libraries are supposed to work together. That includes both the collaboration, how everyone can communicate and who’s in charge.

Submitted by RODRIGO BARBOSA DE PAULO null (rodrigodepaulo22@hotmail.com) on 2016-06-28T15:39:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação correção defesa 3 Helen.pdf: 7607850 bytes, checksum: fe409eb36e9f68b26401a7171c6a1989 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-06-29T18:15:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 paulo_rb_me_mar.pdf: 7607850 bytes, checksum: fe409eb36e9f68b26401a7171c6a1989 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-29T18:15:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 paulo_rb_me_mar.pdf: 7607850 bytes, checksum: fe409eb36e9f68b26401a7171c6a1989 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O desenvolvimento da competência informacional se faz necessário desde os primeiros anos escolares, já que aprimora a capacidade de as pessoas usufruírem de um dos seus direitos humanos fundamentais, o acesso à informação. Delineando-se por estas perspectivas, este estudo tem como objetivo oferecer um panorama a respeito da inter-relação entre a Competência Informacional e o ensino fundamental e contribuir com referenciais norteadores que possam facilitar a adoção de postura reflexiva, crítica e inovadora em relação aos conteúdos decorrentes do acesso e uso da informação para a construção de conhecimento. A abordagem utilizada foi a pesquisa-ação, incluindo atividades de formação dos professores de duas escolas municipais da cidade de Marília ao longo de dezoito meses e tendo como técnicas de coleta de dados: entrevistas com os professores, a aplicação de questionários e análise de relatórios semanais dos professores a respeito das atividades realizadas em sala de aula. Os resultados demonstram que se tem muito a fazer, porém, pode-se perceber mudanças significativas no modo como os professores planejam, utilizam fontes de informação, desenvolvem pesquisa escolar com seus alunos e aplicam noções de normalização dos trabalhos. / The development of information literacy is needed from the earliest school years, as it enhances the ability of people take advantage of one of their fundamental human rights, access the information. outlining by these perspectives, this study aims to provide an overview about the inter-relationship between information literacy and primary education and contribute to guiding frameworks that would facilitate the adoption of reflexive posture, critical and innovative in relation to content resulting from access and use of information for the construction of knowledge. The approach used was action research, including training activities of two public school teachers in the city of Marilia over eighteen months and with the data collection techniques: interviews with teachers, questionnaires and reports analysis weekly teacher about the activities in the classroom. The results show that it has a lot to do, however, can be seen significant changes in the way teachers plan, using information sources, develop school research with their students and apply standards.

Title: School librarians in collaboration The focus of this text is to examine the collaboration between librarians and teachers and how this collaboration can help students achieve better results in school. The school library is often bypassed by teachers. In this lack of involvement and support lies a risk that the gain for students is less than it should be. The purpose of this study aims to investigate if there is any collaboration between the school librarians and the teachers and to what level. The theory used is Patricia Montiel-Overall´s Teacher and Librarian Collaboration (TLC). Seven interviews with school librarians was conducted. Due to being a small study, the material was transcribed into text and read through the perspective of the school librarians only. The findings show collaboration between teachers and librarians is present but to a low level and that administrators do not take such an active part in supporting the librarians. The study provides a glimpse into this field of research on collaboration between teachers and librarians.

In this study, a total of five teachers were interviewed in grade three from four different schools in Stockholm. Three of these schools are located in different suburbs and one school is located in the central part of Stockholm. The starting point of the study is statistics that show a negative development with, in particular, the students who have Swedish as a second language. This study provides an insight into how teachers in grade three of elementary school in Stockholm work with their students to develop reading comprehension. In the study of reading comprehension, this study focuses on the Reciprocal Teaching (RT) method. RT is a well-established reading comprehension strategy designed to bridge the difference between poor readers and good readers. The study shows that not all teachers are familiar with the RT method and also that teachers do not work consistently with all parts of this method. Furthermore, the study also gives an insight into the question of whether the teachers see the librarian as a possible partner in the process. To measure the level at which the teachers collaborate with school librarians, Montiel-Overall's (2005) Teacher Librarian Collaboration (TLC) theory was chosen. TLC theory is an attempt to make practical use of Loertscher’s taxonomy by grouping the low, medium and high levels of collaboration into four models (Model A: coordination, Model B: cooperation, Model C: integrated instruction and Model D: integrated curriculum.) that help define and measure the effect of each model on students’ achievements. This study concludes that the teachers so far haven’t thought about their school librarian as a potential partner with the stated purpose of increasing the students' reading comprehension. The levels of collaboration are predominantly on the low end of the TLC models (Model A: coordination, Model B: cooperation), meaning that teachers and librarians help each other for mutual benefit but no conscious effort is made to plan, teach and evaluate together.