The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What?
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| author | Leung, Sofia |
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| contents | The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What? Leung, Sofia Information Literacy Library Instruction Equal Education Diversity Inclusion Workshops Teaching Methods Decolonization Social Justice This piece examines the parallels between one-shot library instruction and one-off equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) workshops. Library and Information Science/Studies (LIS) as a field problematically frames both information literacy and EDI as add-ons or afterthoughts to the work of library and information workers. This framing tells on itself when the field/profession turns to one-shots, one-off EDI workshops, or other band aid solutions to larger systemic and structural issues. Without actually "solving" anything, these types of neoliberal solutions become part of what enables and extends white supremacy's hold on LIS (Hudson, 2017; Leung & López-McKnight, 2021). What are we hoping to accomplish with the one-shot? What are we hoping to accomplish toward and with information literacy and EDI? In other words, what's the point of information literacy and EDI? |
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| spellingShingle | The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What? Leung, Sofia Information Literacy Library Instruction Equal Education Diversity Inclusion Workshops Teaching Methods Decolonization Social Justice The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What? Leung, Sofia Information Literacy Library Instruction Equal Education Diversity Inclusion Workshops Teaching Methods Decolonization Social Justice This piece examines the parallels between one-shot library instruction and one-off equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) workshops. Library and Information Science/Studies (LIS) as a field problematically frames both information literacy and EDI as add-ons or afterthoughts to the work of library and information workers. This framing tells on itself when the field/profession turns to one-shots, one-off EDI workshops, or other band aid solutions to larger systemic and structural issues. Without actually "solving" anything, these types of neoliberal solutions become part of what enables and extends white supremacy's hold on LIS (Hudson, 2017; Leung & López-McKnight, 2021). What are we hoping to accomplish with the one-shot? What are we hoping to accomplish toward and with information literacy and EDI? In other words, what's the point of information literacy and EDI? |
| title | The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What? |
| topic | Information Literacy Library Instruction Equal Education Diversity Inclusion Workshops Teaching Methods Decolonization Social Justice |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1359002 |