scholarly journals The Core Values of Information Literacy in the Ubiquitous Information Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siu Cheung Kong ◽  
Fong Lok Lee ◽  
Siu Cheung Li ◽  
Sandra Lee
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cognitive Capability ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
School Practitioners

This research aims to study the perception of school practitioners on the core values of information literacy in the ubiquitous information society. An information literacy framework has been proposed that includes four dimensions and eleven derived standards. Seventeen focus group discussion sessions were conducted to gain an understanding of the views of school practitioners. The research findings show that information literacy education should be designed with the humanistic rationale of guiding learners to develop information processing skills, which requires both cognitive capability and the associated affective elements. Students should further develop in the meta-cognitive and socio-cultural domains.

Reconnecting Information Literacy Policy with the Core Values of Librarianship

2011 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi LM Jacobs ◽  
Selinda Berg
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Core Values ◽  
The Core ◽  
Literacy Policy

scholarly journals Information Literacy: What is it? Are you Information Literate? How do you know?

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-176
Author(s):  
Ann M. Riedling
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Media Specialist ◽  
Library Media Specialist ◽  
Library Media ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right

No other change in our nation has offered greater challenges than the emergence of the Infommation Age. In an information society, all people should have the right to information that can enhance their lives. To reap the benefits of our global society, individuals must be information literate on a global basis. This article discusses several aspects of infonnation literacy, from characteristics of an information literate person to information literacy education, including the role of the library media specialist, to educational criteria for evaluating electronic information literacy. It is our job as educators to teach students to become critical thinkers and lifelong leamersinformation literate citizens.

Citizenship, Community, and Ethics: Forrest Gump as a Moral Exemplary

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
William D. Richardson ◽  
Ronald L. McNinch
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Ordinary Citizen ◽  
The Core ◽  
Timely Reminder ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

"Forrest Gump" bas been extraordinarily popular with the ordinary citizens and one of the reasons is self-evident: it presents a Jeffersonian confidence in the moral stalwartness of the yeoman citizenry that runs counter to some of the current approaches in ethics. The film celebrates a basic decency and a common sense that are accessible to all. No real or imagined superiority is required for one to partake. The film is not only popular but also populist in its assertion of the primacy of the ordinary citizen within this regime. In a political climate that now finds the tenure of elected officials uncertain and the legitimacy of public administration suspect, the visible portrayal of exemplary citizen virtues may serve as a timely reminder to all that, more so than any other regime, a democratic republic is ultimately and fundamentally dependent on the core values possessed by its citizenry.

scholarly journals Researching Change and Changing: Integrating Collaboration and Action Through Interiority

2021 ◽  
pp. 002188632110260
Author(s):  
Abraham B. (Rami) Shani ◽  
David Coghlan
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Actionable Knowledge ◽  
The Core ◽  
Integrative Process ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
Collaborative Ventures

In this essay, we are arguing that the field of organizational change and development is positioned to face the challenges of researching change and changing for the next decade and beyond. The core values in the field—that researching change and enacting changing are collaborative ventures undertaken in the present tense where the outcome is actionable knowledge, and that it serves the practical ends of organizations and generates the knowledge of how organizations change—are of utmost relevant for the emerging workplace and organizations. Through differentiated consciousness interiority challenges the polarizations that beset the field (between science and practice) and provides an integrative process focused on the operations of human knowing.

scholarly journals Relegating expertise: The outward and inward positioning of librarians in information literacy education

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110201
Author(s):  
Alison Hicks ◽  
Annemaree Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Practice Of Teaching

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.

scholarly journals Developing Entrepreneurial Spirit Based on Local Wisdom

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ahsan ◽  
Armanu Thoyib ◽  
Achmad Sudiro ◽  
Nur Khusniyah Indrawati
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
The Core ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Autonomous Institution

<p>The purpose of this paper is to explore of entrepreneurial spirit development at the <em>Pesantren</em> (Islamic Boarding School) Sunan Drajat which led by Kyai Abdul Ghofur in local setting one of Islamic propagator legends in Indonesia, Sunan Drajat. The research method used ethnography approach. The techniques of collecting data used were participant observation, interview and focus group discussion. Techniques of analyzing data used were content analysis of interview, domain analysis, taxonomy analysis, component analysis and finding culture themes. The findings are entrepreneurial spirit development at the <em>Pesantren</em> Sunan Drajat has been inspired by <em>catur</em><em> </em><em>piwulang</em> philosophy as the core in giving spirit to the students and local communities. The entrepreneurial spirit development has produced a distinctive model in preparing Islamic entrepreneur generations for the future. As practical implication, the findings can be used as reference to develop entrepreneurial development especially at <em>pesantren</em> in Indonesia. The model also can be used to motivate another <em>pesantren</em> to develop an institution through the local economic based activities to become autonomous institution and not depend on other parties. Originality of this research is to reveal the leadership role and local wisdom in developing entrepreneurial spirit at the <em>Pesantren</em> Sunan Drajat and the community surrounding.</p>

Benedict de Spinoza’s Virtue

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Columbus N. Ogbujah ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Ethical Relativism ◽  
Ethical Egoism ◽  
Absolute Truth ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Seminal Roots

Benedict de Spinoza (1632–1677) was about the most radical of the early modern philosophers who developed a unique metaphysics that inspired an intriguing moral philosophy, fusing insights from ancient Stoicism, Cartesian metaphysics, Hobbes and medieval Jewish rationalism. While helping to ground the Enlightenment, Spinoza’s thoughts, against the intellectual mood of the time, divorced transcendence from divinity, equating God with nature. His extremely naturalistic views of reality constructed an ethical structure that links the control of human passion to virtue and happiness. By denying objective significance to things aside from human desires and beliefs, he is considered an anti-realist; and by endorsing a vision of reality according to which everyone ought to seek their own advantage, he is branded ethical egoist. This essay identified the varying influences of Spinoza’s moral anti-realism and ethical egoism on post-modernist thinkers who decried the “naïve faith” in objective and absolute truth, but rather propagated perspective relativity of reality. It recognized that modern valorization of ethical relativism, which in certain respects, detracts from the core values of the Enlightenment, has its seminal roots in his works.

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