Guided inquiry and Constructivism: new methods of learning and the school library

Abstract

In a reality increasingly characterized by technology, much has been reflected on the future of education and the school library. As there is a close link from the library to the institution in which it operates and since today the reality of schools and their libraries operates specifically in the digital natives logic, this article aims to discuss new educational, teaching and research parameters in an educational context guided by the Internet, within the constructivist logic. To do so, it describes the peculiarities of a private school located at Belo Horizonte (MG), investigated through ethnomethodological methods with interviews and observation techniques, and it confronts the information behavior of their students with some theoretical contributions from Carol Kuhlthau. After all, it reflects on the viability of new proposals for librarian practice and learning methods. We conclude that in times when it comes to the pedagogical nature of the library and librarian-teacher, the research is increasingly aimed to show information literacy models.