Title Information literacy in higher education : a sociocultural perspective / by Fabiola Cabra-Torres, Gloria Patricia Marciales Vivas, Harold Castañeda-Peña, Jorge Winston Barbosa-Chacón, Leonardo Melo González, Oscar Gilberto Hernández Salamanca

Published Cham : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 112 pages) : illustrations Series SpringerBriefs in Education SpringerBriefs in education. Contents 1. The study of information literacy in university education -- 2. The concept of information in the documentation and information science -- 3. Methodological proposal for the observation of information literacy -- 4. Informational literacy profiles of university students -- 5. Information literacy and experiences of university professors -- 6. Shifts in information literacy research Summary This book presents an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to study information literacy in higher education contexts. While mainstream studies tend to see information literacy as a technical and universal process, this book proposes a theoretical and methodological framework to study information literacy from a sociocultural perspective, highlighting the importance of the social and cultural contexts in which information literacy develops. This situated approach demands that research data must be analysed in relation to the contexts in which they emerge, so the book proposes a research method based on the study of personal histories and stories, learning situations and intersubjective relationships to characterize the different information profiles of different information users. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach that combines contributions from educational research, psychology and information sciences, the authors first present a theoretical discussion to argue in favor of the sociocultural paradigm to study information literacy, then present their methodological proposal to observe informational competencies among higher education students, and finally present the results of an empirical study to identify different information literacy profiles among Latin American students and teachers. Breaking with the hegemonic paradigm in the field, Information Literacy in Higher Education - A Sociocultural Perspective provides useful and innovative tools to researchers working in different areas of the social sciences, such as education, psychology, linguistics and information sciences Subject Information literacy -- Research Form Electronic book Author Marciales Vivas, Gloria, author Castañeda-Peña, Harold, author Barbosa Chacón, Jorge Winston, author Melo González, Leonardo, author Hernández Salamanca, Oscar Gilberto, author ISBN 9783030500146 3030500144

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