Description
From Information Literacy to Social Epistemology: Insights from Psychology focuses on information and the ways in which information literacy relates to critical thinking in education, the workplace, and in our social life.
The broad context for our interest is the development in internet technologies often characterised by terms like the ‘digital age’, leading to questions of digital participation, digital divides, and the role of thinking in the information society.
In short, to what extent is the ‘digital age’ engendering changes in learning directed towards the better use of information, and in addition, encouraging or even requiring improvements in critical thinking?
- Provides a new and relevant contribution based on the authors' synthesis of a number of psychological constructs aligned to information literacy
- Addresses the issue of information literacy in the wider population by researching adult returnees to higher education and investigating their experiences in relation to prior experience
- Applies insights to recent developments on the topic, i.e. the Secker and Coonan IL curriculum, alowing an alternative disciplinary perspective and a new, research-based platform
- Develops a model based on the literature reviewed and discusses the relation of the model to the broader concept of social epistemology
Chapter
A - Introduction and Background
1.1 THE INFORMATION CULTURE: INFORMATION LITERACY AND DIGITAL PARTICIPATION
1.1.1 The Information Culture
1.1.2 Digital Participation in the Information Culture
1.2 INFORMATION LITERACY – A KEY ENABLER OF PARTICIPATION?
1.3 PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHTS – COGNITION, METACOGNITION AND CRITICAL THINKING
1.4 CONCLUSION AND STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK
2 - Information Literacy in Adult Returner Students: The Pre-Entry Class Case Study
2.1 THE BACKGROUND CONTEXT
2.2.1 Information Literacy
2.2.1.1 Finding and Using Sources
2.2.1.2 Deciding on the Trustworthiness of Sources
2.2.2 Patterns of Learning
2.2.3 Transformational Learning
2.4 CORROBORATIVE STUDIES
B - Psychological Insights
3 - Critical Thinking and Information Literacy
3.2 THE QUALITY OF ARGUMENTATIVE REASONING
3.3 PEDAGOGY AND CRITICAL THINKING: ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF CRITICAL THINKING VIA TEACHING INTERVENTIONS
4 - Epistemological Thinking, Metacognition and Their Relation to Critical Thinking and Information Literacy
4.2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF EPISTEMOLOGICAL THINKING
4.4 EPISTEMIC METACOGNITION
5 - Student Learning and Information Literacy
5.3 CRITIQUE OF CONSTRUCTIVISM
5.5 CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INFORMATION LITERACY INSTRUCTION
C - Contributions from the Library and Information Sector
6 - Curriculum Development and the New Curriculum for Information Literacy
6.2 TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING
6.3 CURRICULUM INQUIRY AND PRACTICE: TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMATION
6.4 CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
6.5 INFORMATION LITERACY AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
6.6 NEW CURRICULUM FOR INFORMATION LITERACY: A HELICOPTER VIEW FOR BUSY EDUCATIONALISTS
6.6.2 Curriculum Attributes
6.6.3 Using the Curriculum
6.6.4 Implementing the Curriculum
7 - The ACRL (2000) Standards and the ACRL (2015) Revised Framework
7.3 THRESHOLD CONCEPTS CRITIQUE
7.3.1 Authority is Constructed and Contextual
7.3.2 Information Creation as Process
7.3.3 Information Has Value
7.3.4 Research as Inquiry
7.3.5 Scholarship as Conversation
7.3.6 Searching as Strategic Exploration
7.3.7 Some Initial Conclusions
7.4 PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
7.5 DEFINITION OF INFORMATION LITERACY IN THE ACRL FRAMEWORK
8 - UNESCO Contributions to Information Literacy
8.1 INTRODUCTION: EDUCATION, INFORMATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
8.2 UNESCO CONTRIBUTION 1: PROCLAMATIONS
8.3 UNESCO CONTRIBUTION 2: INFORMATION LITERACY PRIMER (WOODY HORTON)
8.4 UNESCO CONTRIBUTION 3: MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY (MIL)
8.5 UNESCO CONTRIBUTION 4: KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES (2015) FINAL STUDY
8.5.1 MIL in Knowledge Societies
9 - Information Literacy and Social Epistemology
9.2.1 Social Epistemology in an Internet Age: Information, Communication, Economic Growth and Social Consciousness
9.2.2 Social Epistemology and Librarianship
9.2.2.1 Smart Libraries for Smart Cities: A Possible Future Direction for Information Literacy in Urban Spaces
9.3 PEDAGOGY FOR SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
9.3.2 Information Literacy Teaching Within Universities
9.3.3 Information Literacy Teaching Within Lifelong Learning Contexts
From Information Literacy to Social Epistemology
：Insights from Psychology
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