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ACTIVATE PEER LEARNING
IN YOUR LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY
Waldo Publishers
Activate Peer Learning in Your Library and Community offers a fresh perspective in this fast-changing world. It explores how librarians can nurture each other and engage library users as peers, as equals—whether virtually or in person—to enjoy learning.
ACTIVATE PEER LEARNING
IN YOUR LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY
Peer engagement is the interchange of ideas and learning among equals, among our colleagues and among our library patrons. Its value to libraries comes into play because a library offers great wisdom and knowledge, and people want to be guided by wisdom and knowledge.
Shakespeare, Plato, Emily Dickinson, and others can inspire our thinking. Activate Peer Learning identifies the thinking process as a skill that can be learned. It reveals how we can get on the same wavelength to think as these geniuses thought.
Great thinkers can become our peers and
we can learn from them.
• What does it mean to activate peer learning?
• How can I harness the power of connected learning?
• How can I strengthen my ability to motivate and guide?
The Raphael painting on the front cover, The School of Athens, illustrates Plato and Socrates working within a mental structure (the building) to interact with universal ideas and engage peers. The mindset you tap and the learning opportunities you create as a librarian are more important than this beautiful and inspirational framework of thinking.