1. SCHOOL LIBRARIES: READING & LITERACIES
BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS
NAME/ COUNTRY FUNCTIONS
She manages information services, libraries, and digital literacy
ALICIA REY programs for adults, information literacy for primary and
- secondary schools. And she provides training for librarians and
SPAIN teachers.
She is a Greek language instructor and is responsible for the
development of school library media programs for special
AI KATERINI ARAMPATZI
education schools, as well as on the use of the “Easy-to-read”
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method and the subsequent development of educational
GREECE
material for students with disabilities.
He is a documentalist teacher, who participates in students’
JOËL NAVARRO and teachers’ researches in the documentation center almost
- daily. He participates in all learning and reading projects as
FRANCE well.
As a teacher- librarian, she is in charge of students and help
them regularly with their research for information and materials
for their work according to their school program. She is also
ISABELLE BENOIT-BERTRAND
helping them to access culture and develop their reading skills
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as well as promote novels in collaboration with my different
FRANCE
colleagues in different subjects. She is deeply involved in the
regional librarian network.
She works at a school for disabled children, who are both
SONJA SLOTEMA SNIJDERS physically and mentally handicapped. Her work mainly consists
- of providing pedagogical and didactic support for teachers. Her
THE NETHERLANDS expertise is in language development, reading, and behavior.
Her study area is training primary school teachers especially in
DERYA ARSLAN literacy. She has been vice president of the Educational
- Science Department since 2009. She is ECTS coordinator of
TURKEY Department.
He is a headmaster assistant at a school for deaf students. He
KAGAN KESKIN HASAN has been working as a teacher trainer in New Educational
– Programmes.
TURKEY
His school is one of the two so-called Elite Schule des
HORST WEISS Wintersports. As assistant headmaster he is in charge of the
- organization of the educational processes at his school. He is
GERMANY also concerned with the handling and coaching of the about 80
athletes who attend his school.

2. He is a member of the School Library Development Team in
Kuopio.
He is the headmaster of Pirtti Primary School (437 pupils) in
Kuopio.
According to the latest PISA results, girls have better reading
skills than boys. The gender gap has even widened in many
countries since 2000. This is mirrored in a decline of boys’
enjoyment of reading and their engagement with reading in
TIMO KEMPPINEN
their leisure time. In this study visit he hopes to find new tools
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to encourage reading for pleasure, to develop methodologies
FINLAND
to get boys to read more and to arrange the possibility to study
information management skills, which forms a basis for lifelong
learning.
She is a Learning Resources Manager of the Northern
Regional College.
She is responsible for the management of the 7 campus
libraries and 20 members of library staff. Her role includes the
promotion of literacy and information skills among students and
RUTH HUTCHINSON
the encouragement of independent learning. She also advises
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teaching staff on the purchasing of learning resource materials.
NORTHERN IRELAND
She is responsible for the library budget and for ensuring that
the library provision reflects the priorities set by Government
policy.
She teaches Italian, Latin, Greek, History and Geography in a
ANTONIA RIZZI public high school. She has been in charge of the school
- library, which is part of a network of public libraries, since 2007.
ITALY
Children´s librarian. She works with different reading support
BRITT DAHLSTRÖM activities for different ages. She presents literature for children,
- teachers and parents. She is responsible for a school library
SWEDEN centre, which means that they support several small school
libraries