Title: Critical Information Literacy and Structural Oppression: Reflecting on Challenges and Looking Forward
Abstract:It has been a challenging time to be concerned about teaching information literacy in the USA. For a while, it felt like librarianship was shifting towards becoming a more justice-focused field. There...It has been a challenging time to be concerned about teaching information literacy in the USA. For a while, it felt like librarianship was shifting towards becoming a more justice-focused field. There was a shift towards critical information literacy (CIL), an approach incorporating critical pedagogy and/or critical theory into one's teaching. The Black Lives Matter movement brought the topic of racism into the national discourse. A growing number of librarians were writing articles using critical race theory (CRT) and other theoretical perspectives that used a critical lens to examine structural racism in libraries and librarianship. In addition, librarians were beginning to engage with decolonisation, including explicitly discussing the need for CIL to decolonise the assumptions inherent in most discussions of information literacy (e.g. Langille, 2018).Read More
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-01-28
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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