TEACHER-LIBRARIAN COLLABORATION IN DEVELOPING FAVOURABLE READING CULTURE IN NIGERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS
TEACHER-LIBRARIAN COLLABORATION IN DEVELOPING FAVOURABLE READING CULTURE IN NIGERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS
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2012
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DAUDU, H.M
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Abstract
This paper is an off-shoot from class discussion on the issue of poor reading ability and
habit of primary school pupils. This discussion was in a course titled "School
Information Systems and Services" taken by undergraduate students of Library and
Information Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Two sets of students were used for
this study. Fifty (50) students from the regular programme and seventy (70) from the
part-time programme who are mostly teachers in their various school's were used for the
study. Viese students were from different localities in the country; hence, they were a
representation of all the geopolitical zones of Nigeria. The research was guided by three
(3) questions which assisted in eliciting information that can be used to encourage the
use of school media centres to develop a reading culture in Nigerian schools. Before a
reading culture can be inculcated in children, books have to be made available.
Suggestions were made on how teachers and librarians can collaborate in developing
reading culture in school children. Prominent among them is that teachers should send
children to the library for specific assignments and librarians should make resources
available for the specific assignments. Parents were also found out to be vehicles through
which reading in school children can be accelerated. At the end of this paper, a
suggested list of supplementary readers was made for use in primary and secondary
schools to develop reading culture in children.
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NIGERIAN SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Keywords
Reading ability,, Reading culture,, Collaboration,, NIGERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS,