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Publication Date: 2002
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Information Fluency: Critically Examining IT Education.
Reffell, Pete; Whitworth, Andrew
New Library World, v103 n11-12 (1182-83) p427-35 2002
Discusses information technology (IT) education in United Kingdom universities and considers the use of IT to foster more critical and foundational faculties. Investigates the potential impact of this approach using the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas and his concept of colonization, and discusses IT and society and computer fluency. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Literacy, Information Technology, Science and Society
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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