scholarly journals A Critical Praxis in the Information Literacy Education Classroom Using the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Author(s):  
Shehaamah Mohamed
2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110201
Author(s):  
Alison Hicks ◽  
Annemaree Lloyd

Previous research has demonstrated that professional narratives reference discourses that shape the practice of information literacy within higher education. This article uses discourse analysis method to identify how information literacy discourses construct and position teaching librarians within higher education. Texts analysed include four recent English-language models of information literacy and 16 textbooks. Analysis suggests the existence of two distinct narratives related to the role, expertise and professional practice of teaching librarians. In the outward-facing narrative librarian work is typically absent from guidelines for practice. In contrast, book introductions, which constitute the inward-facing narrative, centre professional librarians yet simultaneously position them as incompetent, or as lacking the skills and understandings that they need to be effective in this setting. These narratives constitute a form of othering that threatens professional practice at a time when the professionalisation of librarianship is being drawn into question. This article represents the second in a research programme that interrogates the epistemological premises and discourses of information literacy within higher education.


Author(s):  
Elisabeth Adriana Dudziak

O projeto de pesquisa Competências Info-Midiáticas no Ensino Superior (CIMES), ainda em andamento, permite neste momento apresentar apenas alguns resultados parciais. Tomando por base o campo de estudos internacionalmente reconhecido como IML (Information and Media Literacy), o projeto CIMES tem por objetivo implantar um Sistema Educacional Interativo de Promoção da Competência Info-Midiática dos Estudantes de Ensino Superior das universidades públicas brasileiras. Considerando a magnitude do projeto, várias frentes de trabalho têm sido desenvolvidas, traduzidas em sub-projetos a serem implementados paulatinamente, com a colaboração de diferentes agentes. Um destes sub-projetos está relacionado à conceituação da educação para a competência info-midiática e a definição dos processos de ensino-aprendizagem-avaliação. O objetivo deste artigo não é descrever o projeto e sim propor uma reflexão a respeito das diferentes concepções pedagógicas possíveis a serem utilizadas nos processos de educação para a competência em informação. Com base na revisão teórica feita até o momento, resultados parciais revelam que há distintas concepções e apropriações da pedagogia da competência em informação, determinando diferentes tipos e níveis de ação e intervenção no processo de ensino-aprendizagem-avaliação, e respectivos resultados. A pedagogia da competência em informação, em seu nível mais elevado, conduz à emancipação do estudante como usuário e produtor de informação. Definida como fenômeno dialético, a pedagogia da emancipação constrói-se ininterruptamente mediante um diálogo recursivo entre o ser humano e a realidade, entre sujeito e sociedade, entre meio e mensagem. A proposta é avançar na discussão sobre o modelo pedagógico a ser adotado e, a partir dele, considerar o design do processo educacional como um todo.Abstract The research project Info-Media Literacy in Higher Education (CIMES), still not concluded, allows now to present only partial results. Based on the international study field internationally recognized as IML (Information and Media Literacy), the project aims to deploy CIMES an Interactive Educational System for Promotion of Information and Media Literacy for Higher Education Students of Brazilian public universities. Considering the magnitude of the project, various aspects have been developed, translated into sub-projects that have been implemented gradually, with different actors’ collaboration. One of these sub-projects is about the concept information literacy education and teaching-learning-assessment definition. The aim of this article is not to describe the project. The purpose is to propose a reflection about different possible pedagogical assumptions to be used in information literacy education process. Based on literature review done so far, preliminary results show that there are different conceptions of pedagogy and appropriation of information competence, whose determine different types and action and intervention levels in teaching-learning-evaluation processes and its results. The teaching of information competence, at its highest level, leads to the emancipation of the student as a information user and producer. Defined as a dialectical phenomenon, the pedagogy of emancipation is built continuously by a recursive dialogue between man and reality, between subject and society, between medium and message. The proposal of this paper is to advance The proposal is to advance in the discussion about the pedagogical model to be adopted and, through them, consider the desing of the educational process as a whole. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 394-415
Author(s):  
Tessa Sauerwein

Zusammenfassung Das Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education macht einfallsreich und erfinderisch – gerade in Coronazeiten und darüber hinaus. Der Beitrag berichtet über die aktuellen Fortschritte des preisgekrönten Konzeptes FILL (Framework Information Literacy Lessons), das sich in seiner digitalen Weiterentwicklung als FILL for Future (F4F) präsentiert. Mit innovativen und spielerischen Impulsen aus dem Framework reichert es bibliothekarische Schulungspraxis an. Damit gilt F4F als beispielhaftes Projekt in der globalisierten Informationswelt. Es präsentiert sich offen und vernetzt, wie etwa Teaching Libraries mit ihren Zielgruppen. Ganzheitlich gestaltet tragen die vielfältigen Aktivitäten von F4F zur Verbreitung des US-amerikanischen Frameworks weiter und nachhaltig bei.


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