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Information literacy through theory / edited by Alison Hicks, Annemaree Lloyd, Ola Pilerot.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information literacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Facet Publishing, 2023.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Themes, Patterns and Connections
- This volume
- Theoretical research to date
- Key themes in the literature
- Themes
- Next steps
- References
- 1 Democracy and Information Literacy
- Introduction
- Information literacy and democracy: the dominant LIS paradigm
- From information literacy to a democratic theory, from a democratic theory to information literacy problems
- A reset: the empirical and the normative
- Conclusion: the empirical, the normative and IL
- References
- 2 Information Literacy and the Social: Applying a Practice Theory View to Information Literacy
- Practice theory landscape
- Theoretical questions
- Ontological questions
- Epistemologically
- Methodologically
- Conclusion: how does practice theory explain information literacy?
- 3 Information Literacy in a Nexus of Practice: A Mediated Discourse Perspective
- The core elements of mediated discourse theory
- Theoretical questions: information literacy from an MDT perspective
- Epistemological, ontological and methodological position
- How does positioning theory shape methodological choices for information literacy research?
- How does positioning theory interpret and explain information literacy?
- How might the employment of positioning theory be enhanced by other theories?
- Conclusion
- 6 Plural Agonistics
- Part one: Core elements of the theory of plural agonistics
- Part two: Plural agonistics and information literacy
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- 7 Critical Literacy and Critical Design
- Discussion and conclusions
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Decembre 26th, 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 10 Surfacing the Body: Embodiment, Site and Source
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hicks, Alison Information Literacy Through Theory
- ISBN:
- 9781783305919
- 1783305916
- Publisher Number:
- 99995376751
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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