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Why Teacher and Librarian Partnerships in Literacy Education in the 21st Century?

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Teacher and Librarian Partnerships in Literacy Education in the 21st Century

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Why do we consider teacher and librarian partnerships to be essential to literacy education in the 21st century? An unprecedented pace of knowledge development, digitalization, globalization and extensive transnational migration characterizes the 21st century (Bottery, 2006; Daun, 2011; Delgado & Norman, 2008; Sassen, 1998).

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Pihl, J., Carlsten, T.C., van der Kooij, K.S. (2017). Why Teacher and Librarian Partnerships in Literacy Education in the 21st Century?. In: Pihl, J., van der Kooij, K.S., Carlsten, T.C. (eds) Teacher and Librarian Partnerships in Literacy Education in the 21st Century. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-899-0_1

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