Creating a Learning Environment in School Libraries: Readers, Researchers, Creative and Critical Students

Abstract

This paper presents the school library from two perspectives. The first is related to the constant renewal in the field of information technology and communication; the changes have turned the physical library into all kinds of virtual libraries and books have become digitized texts and hypertexts that link words and realities. The second one considers libraries and the possibilities contained in them as open and flexible spaces that can become a privileged learning environment. Training students who are readers, researchers, creative and critical is the task of the teacher who plans connections between subjects, who designs sequences and instructional units with which the students have the opportunity to approach the treasure of inherited tradition, to delve into it and to renew it. References to some of the materials developed around books and texts, as well as links to web pages where they are currently published, are attached in the last section as examples.