ERIC Number: EJ987569
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Publication Date: 2012-Oct
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Troublesome Concepts and Information Literacy: Investigating Threshold Concepts for IL Instruction
Hofer, Amy R.; Townsend, Lori; Brunetti, Korey
portal: Libraries and the Academy, v12 n4 p387-405 Oct 2012
Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept transforms the learner's view of content and helps integrate previously learned material; threshold concepts are portals that, once traversed, bring insight into how to think and act like a practitioner within a discipline. This project uses the data collected to propose seven threshold concepts for information literacy. (Contains 3 figures and 25 notes.)
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Library Science, Librarians, Surveys, Information Retrieval, Information Utilization, Metadata, Databases, Intellectual Property, Plagiarism, Citations (References), Internet, Search Engines, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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