Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts

• Main Authors: Godbey, Samantha, Wainscott, Susan Beth, Goodman, Xan
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago, IL Association of College and Research Libraries 2017
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Information literacy-Study and teaching (Higher)
• ISBN: 9780838989708; 0838989705

In 25 chapters divided into sections mirroring ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education-Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, and Searching as Strategic Explorati...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 17. Performance as Conversation: Dialogic Aspects of Music Performance and Study -- Chapter 18. Framing the Talk: Scholarship as Conversation in the Health Sciences -- Chapter 19. Widening the Threshold: Using Scholarship as Conversation to Welcome Students to Science -- Chapter 20. Theater as a Conversation: Threshold Concepts in the Performing Arts -- Section Six. Searching as Strategic Exploration -- Chapter 21. From Novice to Nurse: Searching For Patient Care Information as Strategic Exploration -- Chapter 22. Leveraging the Language of the Past: Searching as Strategic Exploration in the Discipline of History -- Chapter 23. Mapping the Chaos: Building a Research Practice with Threshold Concepts in Studio Art Disciplines -- Chapter 24. Teaching Future Educators Exploration through Strategic Searching -- Chapter 25. Threshold Concepts, Information Literacy, and Social Epistemology: A Critical Perspective on the ACRL Framework with Reference to Psychology -- Bibliography -- About the Authors
• Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section One. Authority is Constructed and Contextual -- Chapter 1. Teaching Inclusive Authorities: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and the Framework for Information Literacy in Native Art -- Chapter 2. "But How Do I Know It's a Good Source?" Authority is Constructed in Social Work Practice -- Chapter 3. Exploring Authority in Linguistics Research: Who to Trust When Everyone's a Language Expert -- Chapter 4. Evidence and Authority in Health and Exercise Science Research -- Section Two. Information Creation as a Process -- Chapter 5. Common Ground: Communicating Information -- Chapter 6. Using the Frame Information Creation as a Process to Teach Career Competencies to Advertising Students -- Chapter 7. Moving Public Health Learners to the Skeptical Edge with Information Creation as a Process -- Chapter 8. Teaching Source Selection in Public Affairs Using Information Creation as a Process -- Section Three. Information Has Value -- Chapter 9. Information Privilege in the Context of Community Engagement in Sociology -- Chapter 10. Images Have Value: Changing Student Perceptions of Using Images in Art History -- Chapter 11. Mining for the Best Information Value with Geoscience Students -- Chapter 12. Teaching the Teachers: The Value of Information for Educators -- Section Four. Research as Inquiry -- Chapter 13. Empowering, Enlightening, and Energizing: Research as Inquiry in Women's and Gender Studies -- Chapter 14. Framing the Visual Arts: The Challenges of Applying the Research as Inquiry Concept to Studio Art Information and Visual Literacy -- Chapter 15. Integrating the ACRL Threshold Concept Research as Inquiry into Baccalaureate Nursing Education -- Chapter 16. Action Research as Inquiry for Education Students -- Section Five. Scholarship as Conversation