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Sharun, Sara – Journal of Information Literacy, 2023
The aim of this study is to contribute to a pragmatic understanding of critical information literacy (CIL) by positioning it as a context-specific interpersonal practice. Using phenomenography to explore how information work is experienced by social workers in social and health care settings, this paper provides an example of critical information…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Information Literacy, Context Effect, Social Work
Lupien, Pascal; Rourke, Lorna E. – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
The current political climate is characterized by an alarming pattern of global democratic regression driven by authoritarian populist leaders who deploy vast misinformation campaigns. These offensives are successful when the majority of the population lack skills that would allow them to think critically about information in the political sphere,…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Information Literacy, Democracy, Citizenship Education
Dennie, Danielle; Breier, Susie – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
This study employed a novel user experience method, the love/breakup letter, to evaluate the usefulness of an online information literacy (IL) tutorial for students writing assignments with research requirements. Thematic coding of the letters showed that this method elicited revealing responses from students about their confidence in doing…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Academic Libraries
Gill, Navroop; Springall, Elena – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
This project report describes an internal scan of library staff involved in instruction in a large academic library system. 64 semi-structured interviews were conducted and qualitatively analysed in order to produce a summary of instruction across the library system, and both the challenges faced and supports desired by these instructors. The most…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Foreign Countries
Dandar, Devina; Lacey, Sajni – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
This article uses the theoretical perspectives of critical discourse analysis (Mayr, 2008; Fairclough, 1992) and critical pedagogy (Pagowsky & McElroy, 2016; Accardi, et al., 2010) to explore how language is a socially regulating structure used to represent and maintain power within the academic context. These perspectives are applied to two…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Reflection, Information Literacy
Wade, Anne; Lysenko, Larysa; Abrami, Philip C. – Journal of Information Literacy, 2020
This study was undertaken to learn about the impact of using the web-based Inquiry Strategies for the Information Society of the Twenty-First Century (ISIS-21), software developed by the authors, to improve the information literacy (IL) skills of late elementary students (10-12 years). Using a series of multi-media and learning strategies design…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Skills, 21st Century Skills, Skill Development
Sharun, Sara – Journal of Information Literacy, 2019
This study presents a critical exploration of one of the "ACRL Framework" concepts by examining it in the context of professional practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with health and human service professionals at a community health centre to explore how information literacy (IL) is experienced in the workplace. Value…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Health Personnel, Human Services, Community Health Services
Smith, Denise – Journal of Information Literacy, 2019
McMaster University's Health Sciences Library (HSL) began to transition to a new liaison service model in early 2018. One of its librarians sought to understand how an academic health sciences library can optimise its support for academic undergraduate programmes. This scoping review of the literature was pursued with the aim to submit an informed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Medical Libraries