Lee Fitzgerald

Biography

Lee FitzGerald is a lecturer in the Teacher Librarianship Master's program in the Information Studies department of Charles Sturt University, as well as occasional lecturer in the Knowledge Networking and Digital Innovation Master's program. She has had a long career as a teacher librarian in primary and secondary school libraries, both independent and public. She has a passion for school libraries, teacher librarianship, and a strong interest in Guided Inquiry as an emerging pedagogy. Lee is an advocate of the teaching role of the teacher librarian, especially as it is facilitated by inquiry learning. She is also interested in applying evidence-based practice to confirm the growth of deep learning through inquiry. Since joining Charles Sturt University in 2014, Lee has been involved, and continues to be involved, in research projects in partnership with Dr. Kasey Garrison on the ways in which students in high school use and transfer the Guided Inquiry Design process. Lee was editor of Scan, the NSW DET journal for teacher librarians in the 1990s. In recent years, Lee has worked with the Loreto community in Darjeeling District in India to set up and maintain a small, manual library in the tea gardens district below the Himalayas at Loreto Panighatta near Siliguri. Lee is due to finish a book for ABC Clio in November 2017, entitled Guided Inquiry goes global: Evidence-based practice in action.

Research Interest

Human Behavioral