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| author | Logan Rath |
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| contents | Information Literacy Is a Social Practice: A Threshold Concept for Academic Instruction Librarians Logan Rath Information Literacy Fundamental Concepts Academic Libraries Library Instruction Librarians Grounded Theory Theory Practice Relationship Information Science Education Librarian Attitudes This article proposes that understanding information literacy as a social practice is a threshold concept for academic information literacy librarians. While the social nature of information literacy has been theorized for more than 25 years, the noted theory-to-practice gap in this area suggests a new question to be raised. This study explores how practicing academic librarians come to adopt this understanding, if at all. The article reports on the development of a grounded theory to explain the theory-to-practice gap. Participants were 17 academic instruction librarians who participated in interviews. A grounded theory approach was used to analyze the data and found that a threshold concept might explain a shift from seeing information literacy as skills-based to practice-based. Implications for LIS education include explicit discussion of this threshold concept as well as including the related concept of information landscapes in the LIS curriculum. |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Information Literacy Is a Social Practice: A Threshold Concept for Academic Instruction Librarians Logan Rath Information Literacy Fundamental Concepts Academic Libraries Library Instruction Librarians Grounded Theory Theory Practice Relationship Information Science Education Librarian Attitudes Information Literacy Is a Social Practice: A Threshold Concept for Academic Instruction Librarians Logan Rath Information Literacy Fundamental Concepts Academic Libraries Library Instruction Librarians Grounded Theory Theory Practice Relationship Information Science Education Librarian Attitudes This article proposes that understanding information literacy as a social practice is a threshold concept for academic information literacy librarians. While the social nature of information literacy has been theorized for more than 25 years, the noted theory-to-practice gap in this area suggests a new question to be raised. This study explores how practicing academic librarians come to adopt this understanding, if at all. The article reports on the development of a grounded theory to explain the theory-to-practice gap. Participants were 17 academic instruction librarians who participated in interviews. A grounded theory approach was used to analyze the data and found that a threshold concept might explain a shift from seeing information literacy as skills-based to practice-based. Implications for LIS education include explicit discussion of this threshold concept as well as including the related concept of information landscapes in the LIS curriculum. |
| title | Information Literacy Is a Social Practice: A Threshold Concept for Academic Instruction Librarians |
| topic | Information Literacy Fundamental Concepts Academic Libraries Library Instruction Librarians Grounded Theory Theory Practice Relationship Information Science Education Librarian Attitudes |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1388739 |