The qualitative landscape of information literacy research : perspectives, methods and techniques / Annemaree Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, Annemaree, author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : Facet Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Situating Information Literacy Research p. 1

A theory of information literacy landscapes p. 2

Practitioner and academic research routes to information literacy research p. 9

The language of research p. 11

Building block concepts: paradigm, ontology and epistemology p. 11

Paradigms p. 12

2 Informing Information Literacy Research p. 19

The work of theoretical frameworks p. 19

Foundational sociocultural theories used in qualitative information p. 20

Literacy research

Phenomenology p. 20

Constructionism p. 23

Practice theory p. 25

Variation theory p. 27

Postmodernism p. 28

Critical theory p. 30

Social capital theory p. 31

3 Framing Information Literacy as an Educational Practice for Research, Learning Theories and Models p. 33

Ways of teaching information literacy p. 34

Researching information literacy as a practice of learning in an information-intense and complex age p. 35

Learning theories p. 39

Behaviourist theory p. 39

Social cognitive theory p. 40

Sociocultural learning theories p. 41

Situated learning p. 43

Problem-based teaming p. 45

Collaborative teaming p. 45

Blended learning p. 46

Postmodern theories p. 46

Institutional models and frameworks of information literacy p. 48

SCONUL (Seven Pillars) p. 49

A New Curriculum for Information Literacy (ANCIL) p. 50

Framework for Association of College and Research Libraries Guidelines (ACRL Guidelines) p. 51

Metaliteracy p. 52

Information search process (ISP) p. 52

Informed learning p. 54

4 Qualitative Methods in Information Literacy Research p. 55

Action research and participatory action research methods p. 56

Case study method p. 60

Critical incident technique p. 61

Delphi method p. 63

Discourse analytic approaches p. 64

Ethnography p. 65

Grounded theory methods (traditional and constructivist) p. 67

Phenomenography p. 69

Visual methods p. 72

Participatory visual methods p. 73

Arts-based and arts-informed research p. 74

5 Collecting Data About Information Literacy: Data Collection Techniques p. 79

Focus groups p. 83

Interview to the double p. 85

Diaries p. 86

Observation p. 87

Arts-informed techniques - potential use for information literacy research p. 88

Mapping the information landscape p. 91

Doing information literacy research online p. 93

6 Planning for Research p. 97

Designing qualitative information literacy research p. 97

Identifying the research problem p. 99

Elements of a research plan p. 105

Pilot study p. 111

Searching for research literature p. 112

Data analysis p. 113

Working with data p. 115

Evaluating information literacy research p. 116

7 Qualitatively Speaking and Doing Information Literacy Research p. 119

Themes emerging from research (2010-2020) p. 120

Themes from the literature p. 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781783304073

1783304073

Publisher Number:

99988799626

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