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Title Disciplinary applications of information literacy threshold concepts / edited by Samantha Godbey, Susan Beth Wainscott, and Xan Goodman
Published Chicago, Illinois : Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (x, 368 pages)
Contents Section one. Authority is constructed and contextual -- Teaching inclusive authorities: Indigenous ways of knowing and the framework for information literacy in native art / Alexander Watkins -- "But how do I know it's a good source?": authority is constructed in social work practice / Callie Wiygul Branstiter and Rebecca Halpern -- Exploring authority in linguistics research: who to trust when everyone's a language expert / Catherine Baird and Johnathan Howell -- Section two. Information creation as a process -- Common ground: communicating information / Beate Gersch -- Using the frame information creation as a process to teach career competencies to advertising students / Megan Blauvelt Heuer -- Moving public health learners to the skeptical edge with information creation as a process / Xan Goodman -- Teaching source selection in public affairs using information creation as a process / Christina Sheley -- Section three. Information has value -- Information privilege in the context of community engagement in sociology / Heidi R. Johnson and Anna C. Smedley-López -- Images have value: changing student perceptions of using images in art history / Courtney Baron, Christopher Bishop, Ellen Neufeld, and Jessica Robinson -- Mining for the best information value with geoscience students / Susan Beth Wainscott and Joshua Bonde -- Teaching the teachers: the value of information for educators / Jess Haigh -- Section four. Research as inquiry -- Empowering, enlightening, and energizing: research as inquiry in women's and gender studies / Juliann Couture and Sharon Ladenson -- Framing the visual arts: the challenges of applying the research as inquiry concept to studio art information and visual literacy / Marty Miller -- Integrating the ACRL threshold concept research as inquiry into baccalaureate nursing education / Kimberly J. Whalen and Suzanne E. Zentz -- Action research as inquiry for education students / Samantha Godbey -- Performance as conversation: dialogic aspects of music performance and study / Rachel Elizabeth Scott -- Framing the talk: scholarship as conversation in the health sciences / Candace Vance -- Widening the threshold: using scholarship as conversation to welcome students to science / Rebecca Kuglitsch -- Theater as a conversation: threshold concepts in the performing arts / Christina E. Dent -- Section six. Searching as strategic exploration -- From novice to nurse: searching for patient care information as strategic exploration / Elizabeth Moreton and Jamie Conklin -- Leveraging the language of the past: searching as strategic exploration in the discipline of history / Jamie L. Emery -- Mapping the chaos: building a research practice with threshold concepts in studio art disciplines / Ashley Peterson -- Teaching future educators exploration through strategic searching / Michelle Keba -- Threshold concepts, information literacy, and social epistemology: a critical perspective on the ACRL framework with reference to psychology / Tony Anderson and Bill Johnston
Summary In 25 chapters divided into sections mirroring ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education--Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, and Searching as Strategic Exploration--Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts explores threshold concepts as an idea and the specifics of what the concepts contained in the Framework look like in disciplinary contexts. The chapters cover many disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and physical sciences, and a range of students, from first-year undergraduates to doctoral students
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2020)
Subject Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Form Electronic book
Author Godbey, Samantha, editor.
Wainscott, Susan Beth, editor.
Goodman, Xan, editor.
LC no. 2019981649
ISBN 9780838989715
0838989713