Practising Information Literacy : Bringing Theories of Learning, Practice and Information Literacy Together

This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning. It combines findings with new understandings drawn from theoretical and empirical research conducted in primary and secondary schools, higher education, workplaces, and community contexts. The studies offer new insights into questions such as how transferable are the information practices and skills learned in one context to other contexts? What is the degree to which information competences are generic, to what degree are they domain and context specific? What are the kinds of challenges and outcomes that emerge from incorporating information literacy into education and training courses? And, most importantly, what kinds of theories and philosophies regarding the nature of learning, information, and knowledge, should information literacies education and research efforts be based on? Content: Front matter , Pages i-iii Copyright , Page iv Acknowledgments , Pages vii-viii , Annemaree Lloyd, Sanna Talja Integrating theories of learning, literacies and information practices , Pages ix-xviii , Sanna Talja, Annemaree Lloyd Chapter 1 - Windows on information literacy worlds: Generic, situated and transformative perspectives , Pages 3-27 , Mandy Lupton, Christine Bruce Chapter 2 - Lessons from the workplace: Understanding information literacy as practice , Pages 29-49 , Annemaree Lloyd Chapter 3 - Information literacy as situated and distributed activity , Pages 51-64 , Lasse Lipponen Chapter 4 - Problem-based learning and collaborative information literacy in an educational digital video course , Pages 67-94 , Päivi Hakkarainen, Sari Poikela Chapter 5 - The challenges of the first research paper: Observing students and the teacher in the secondary school classroom , Pages 95-120 , Heidi Hongisto, Eero Sormunen Chapter 6 - Digital literacies as school practices , Pages 121-141 , Leena Rantala Chapter 7 - Year 12 students’ use of information literacy skills: A constructivist grounded analysis , Pages 143-165 , James E Herring Chapter 8 - Generic versus discipline-specific skills , Pages 169-188 , David E Woolwine Chapter 9 - Teacher trainees of the Internet Age: Changing conceptions of information literacy instruction? , Pages 189-209 , Mikko Tanni Chapter 10 - Dialogic literacy: A sociocultural literacy learning approach , Pages 211-226 , Vesa Korhonen Chapter 11 - On the connections between information use and learning process , Pages 229-249 , Jarkko Kari, Reijo Savolainen Chapter 12 - Knowledge building by Australian online investors: The role of information literacy , Pages 251-271 , Kirsty Williamson Chapter 13 - Evidence-based practice: Information professionals’ experience of information literacy in the workplace , Pages 273-297 , Helen Partridge, Sylvia L Edwards, Clare Thorpe Chapter 14 - Becoming a citizen—becoming information-literate? Immigrants’ experiences of information literacy learning situations in Finland , Pages 301-329 , Saraleena Aarnitaival Chapter 15 - Exploring information literacy from feminist perspectives , Pages 331-356 , Suzanne Lipu Challenges for future research on learning, literacies and information practices , Pages 357-364 , Sanna Talja, Annemaree Lloyd Notes on contributors , Pages 365-370 Index , Pages 371-378