Posted in CIL Bibliography, critical education, information literacy on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Asselin, M., & Kymes, A. (2007). A Critical Examination of Information Literacy Instruction During a Grade 9 Research Project. SIMILE: Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education, 7(4), 1-18.
This excellent research article provides a clear, concise overview of the cognitive and critical views of information literacy in addition to a thorough study of the [...]
Posted in CIL Bibliography, critical education, information literacy, librarianship on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the second article in my growing critical information literacy bibliography. I was planning to cover one article a week, but have realised it would take me 3 years to finish the bibliography as it stands now. I’ll try to cover at least 3 a week and see if I can’t speed things up [...]
Posted in CIL Bibliography, critical education, information literacy, librarianship on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Agada, J. (2001). Deconstructing the At-Risk Student Phenomenon: Can Librarian Values Salvage Education for the 21st Century? In H. Thompson (Ed.), Crossing the Divide: Proceedings of the 10th National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries (pp. 81-88). Association of College Research Libraries.
From the introduction:
“This paper offers a critical perspective on the [...]
Posted in CIL Bibliography, critical education, information literacy on April 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been silent on this blog for a long time, but I’ve continued to work on my research into information literacy and critical pedagogy. You can see my shared references here.
Feel free to add comments, make suggestions, and use as you see fit. I intend to make posts on every article in the bibliography as [...]
Posted in critical education, information literacy, media literacy on May 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This recent post on ACRLog, Authoritative Sources or Question Authority, gets to the heart of understanding the need for critical information and media literacy. Although critical literacy is never mentioned, this is obviously what is being discussed. We simply cannot tell people to use “authoritative” sources and leave it at that. If we don’t help [...]
Posted in critical education, information literacy on May 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Critical theory is, above all else, a way to ask questions about power. Who has it? How did they get it? How do they keep it? What are they doing with it? How do their actions affect the less powerful? How might things be otherwise? (Finding Freedom in the Classroom, p.17, by Patricia Hinchey)
We need [...]
Posted in critical education, information literacy, librarianship on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Now that exams are over, I will hopefully have time to start spending more time on this blog. I’ve been thinking a lot about critical information literacy the past few months, but I have spent most of my free time just trying to read as much as I can on critical education in general and [...]
Posted in CIL Bibliography, critical education, information literacy on March 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Although I’ve been interested in critical education for some time, I never really thought about applying it directly to information literacy before. It has always been part of my overall philosophy in the classroom, but my experience with information literacy in the classroom has been focused primarily on skills training. I have to thank James [...]
