Notification from Mark Hepworth re two publications that he thinks should be useful for people who do information literacy training.
1. The first is a book I published in collaboration with Geoff Walton. This is called Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry Based Learning. This has recently become available electronically and can be found at: http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=1830&ChandosTitle=1
Unfortunately it is not open access
The book is aimed at teachers of information literacy (encompassing, to an extent, media literacy). The book is structured into two parts.
a) The first half of the book gives the theoretical pedagogical knowledge that a teacher or librarian needs to know to teach information literacy; common knowledge for many teachers, but here applied to the teaching information literacy which is new.
b) The second part is a practical guide to planning lessons to teach information literacy, including lesson plans and learning outcomes – some further work would need to be done to integrate these into different subject areas and relate to levels of information literacy.
2. I would also like to alert people to a publication, freely available via Open Access. This identifies the challenges associated with developing information literate, independent learners and building research capacity in Higher Education. It also proposes an institutional strategy that could be applied to help ensure that this takes place.
It is based on research I did last year in Africa, working with the University of Botswana, the University of Zambia and Mzuzu University in Malawi. The work was funded by the Institute of Development Studies and done in collaboration with Siobhan Duvigneau, Information Literacy Manager, British Library for Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, as well as people at the three universities who contributed to the research design and enabled access to academics, librarians and academic support staff.
Although aimed at providers of higher education I think the principles are relevant to secondary education – specifically the need to build the capabilities of staff (both in terms of appropriate pedagogy and knowledge of information literacy) and also the infrastructure that supports IL and Media and Information Literacy capacity building. This can be found at:
http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/2301?show=full
I would appreciate any comments on these two works and more than happy to get into discussion.
Originally added by Christine Irving