Inglorious pedagogy : difficult, unpopular, and uncommon topics in library and information science education / edited by Keren Dali and Kim M. Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the glories and inglories of library and information science pedagogy / Kim M. Thompson and Keren Dali -- Performing librarianship: practicing the reference interview and building community through improvisation / Sarah Beth Nelson and Emily Vardell -- Nice to have, a distraction from the core curriculum, or a disruptive element? A teaching journey through three common perceptions of social justice in LIS education / Briony Birdi -- We, who cannot unlearn: (un)learning and disabled faculty in American (post)pandemic academia / Keren Dali and Paul T. Jaeger -- “The pandemic has forced us all to become professionals again”: adjunct faculty advocacy at a Canadian ALA-accredited iSchool / Max Dionisio -- Teaching for intellectual humility / Tim Gorichanaz -- The difficulty of training students to do research in tangles of discourses: a case of a postgraduate dissertation project / Liangzhi Yu and Xiaofei Yan -- Overwhelmed or overteaching? Humanism for time use and pedagogy / Kim M. Thompson -- The academia-practice gap: it takes two to tango / Keren Dali -- “I feel like an ATM machine”: mentoring, LIS research, and academic capitalism / Jenny Bossaller -- The way of WalDorF: fostering creativity in LIS programs / Keren Dali -- Tales from three countries and one academia: academic faculty in the time of the pandemic / Keren Dali, Nadia Caidi, Kim M. Thompson, and Jane Garner -- Transitioning to postgraduate distance learning: student experiences of change and success / Anne Goulding and Guanzheng Li -- Epilogue: concluding the (in)glorious journey / Keren Dali and Kim M. Thompson.

"Presenting perspectives from Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S., this volume brings together a collection of essays from library and information science (LIS) educators from around the world who delve into difficult, unpopular, and uncommonly discussed topics"-- Provided by publisher.