Librarians as Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory to Move Toward Critical Information Literacy
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This article proposes that we extend our information literacy instruction programs to include tenets of genre theory as a way to move toward a more critical stance in our pedagogy. By developing an anthropologist's sensitivity to culture, academic librarians can learn the characteristics of the academic disciplines and then help students learn these characteristics as a way for them to understand the rhetorical practices in these fields. In making tacit practices visible, librarians can facilitate students' transitions into the cultures of their chosen disciplines. In this way, we can help students see that information is constructed and contested not monolithic and apolitical.
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Critical information literacy is a teaching perspective that does not focus on student acquisition of skills, as information literacy definitions and standards consistently do, and instead encourages a critical and discursive approach to information.
“It is a teaching perspective that does not focus on student acquisition of skills, as information literacy definitions and standards consistently do, and instead encourages a critical and discursive approach to information (Simmons, 2005).”
From A Decade of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature (2015) · cites this paper as Simmons, 2005
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Teaching at the Desk: Toward a Reference Pedagogy
Elmborg, J. K. (2002) · portal: Libraries and the Academy · doi:10.1353/pla.2002.0050 · Cited by 101 · see citing works
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A Decade of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature
Tewell, E. (2015) · Comminfolit · doi:10.15760/comminfolit.2015.9.1.174 · Cited by 202 · see citing works
“standards consistently do, and instead encourages a critical and discursive approach to information (Simmons, 2005).”
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- Authors
- Simmons, M. H.
- Venue
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2005-07
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 297-311
- ISSN
- 1530-7131
- Cited by
- 92
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
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