Disciplinary applications of information literacy threshold concepts / edited by Samantha Godbey, Susan Beth Wainscott, and Xan Goodman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Godbey, Samantha, editor.

Wainscott, Susan, editor.

Goodman, Xan, editor.

Association of College and Research Libraries, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information literacy--Study and teaching (Higher).

Information literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017.

Summary:

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 Exploration-Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts explores threshold concepts as an idea and the specifics of what the concepts contained in the Framework look like in disciplinary contexts. The chapters cover many disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and physical sciences, and a range of students, from first-year undergraduates to doctoral students.

Contents:

Foreword / Ray Land

Introduction / Samantha Godbey, Susan Beth Wainscott, Xan Goodman

Section one: Authority is constructed and contextual. Teaching inclusive authorities : indigenous ways of knowing and the framework for information literacy in Native art / Alexander Watkins

"But how do I know it's a good source?" Authority is constructed in social work practice / Callie Wiygul Branstiter and Rebecca Halpern

Exploring authority in linguistics research : who to trust when everyone's a language expert / Catherine Baird and Jonathan Howell

Evidence and authority in health and exercise science research / Michelle Twait

Section two: Information creation as a process. Common ground : communicating information / Beate Gersch

Using the frame information creation as a process to teach career competencies to advertising students / Megan Blauvelt Heuer

Moving public health learners to the skeptical edge with information creation as a process / Xan Goodman

Teaching source selection in public affairs using information creation as a process / Christina Sheley

Section three: Information has value. Information privilege in the context of community engagement in sociology / Heidi R. Johnson and Anna C. Smedley-López

Images have value : changing student perceptions of using images in art history / Courtney Baron, Christopher Bishop, Ellen Neufeld, and Jessica Robinson

Mining for the best information value with geoscience students / Susan Beth Wainscott and Joshua Bonde

Teaching the teachers : the value of information for educators / Jess Haigh

Section four: Research as inquiry. Empowering, enlightening, and energizing : research as inquiry in women's and gender studies / Juliann Couture and Sharon Ladenson

Framing the visual arts : the challenges of applying the research as inquiry concept to studio art information and visual literacy / Marty Miller

Integrating the ACRL threshold concept research as inquiry into baccalaureate nursing education / Kimberly J. Whalen and Suzanne E. Zentz

Action research as inquiry for education students / Samantha Godbey

Section five: Scholarship as conversation. Performance as conversation : dialogic aspects of music performance and study / Rachel Elizabeth Scott

Framing the talk : scholarship as conversation in the health sciences / Candace Vance

Widening the threshold : using scholarship as conversation to welcome students to science / Rebecca Kuglitsch

Theater as a conversation : threshold concepts in the performing arts / Christina E. Dent

Section six: Searching as strategic exploration. From novice to nurse : searching for patient care information as strategic exploration / Elizabeth Moreton and Jamie Conklin

Leveraging the language of the past : searching as strategic exploration in the discipline of history / Jamie L. Emery

Mapping the chaos : building a research practice with threshold concepts in studio art disciplines / Ashley Peterson

Teaching future educators exploration through strategic searching / Michelle Keba

Threshold concepts, information literacy, and social epistemology : a critical perspective on the ACRL Framework with reference to psychology / Tony Anderson and Bill Johnson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780838989715

0838989713

OCLC:

1013182864