Searching for a Definition of Information Literacy as a Socially Cohesive Component of Community : A Complementarity of Experts and Student Approach

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F22%3A00126994" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/22:00126994 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/6/235/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/6/235/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11060235" target="_blank" >10.3390/socsci11060235</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Searching for a Definition of Information Literacy as a Socially Cohesive Component of Community : A Complementarity of Experts and Student Approach

Original language description

Information literacy can be seen as a fundamental prerequisite for a sustainable complex information society. As a lack of information literacy, information poverty represents a significant social and educational issue. Information literacy and information poverty will be the new dividing lines of a complex world, as the “rich north and poor south” metaphor became in the 20th century. A careful study of discourses in information literacy allows for effective educational and social policies aimed at its development. The aim of this study is to present an analysis of different approaches and discourses to define the concept of information literacy based on a review of papers from Web of Science. The study identifies four important directions of definitions or new grasps of information literacy, with an emphasis on social justice, the analysis of social and technological change, and a demand for higher quality information literacy education. Based on this analysis, the discourses present in the responses of undergraduate information studies and library science students (n = 132) collected between 2019 and 2022 are studied. The qualitative study shows that these underlying discourses are present in the students’ responses but, at the same time, offer specific perspectives on their fulfilment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social Sciences

ISSN

2076-0760

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

1-28

UT code for WoS article

000965211200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85131351671