Teaching and Learning Online: Contextualizing the Distance Education Classroom as a `Safe Space' for Learning LIS Cultural Competency

Morris, Vanessa Irvin

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Title

Teaching and Learning Online: Contextualizing the Distance Education Classroom as a `Safe Space' for Learning LIS Cultural Competency

Author(s)

Morris, Vanessa Irvin

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• distance education
• LIS professional development
• cultural competency

Abstract

This paper conveys one LIS professor's experience with teaching eight students in a newly minted multicultural/diversity course for an ALA-accredited LIS program. The course was taught 100% online with a structure that aimed to incorporate as much reflection and interaction as possible due to the humanistic nature of the topic of the course. This open-forum approach to presenting the course was met with resistance by students in various ways. This research seeks to explore what it means to be an LIS educator while simultaneously learning ways in which challenging student discourse in an online context impacts learning and possibly, competent library service in the field.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47279

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https://doi.org/10.9776/14400

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