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Diversifying information literacy research: An informed learning perspective
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Diversifying information literacy research: An informed learning perspective

Christine Bruce, Mary M Somerville, Ian D Stoodley and Helen Partridge
Developing People’s Information Capabilities: Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts, Volume 8, pp.223-240
Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-0562(2013)0000008018
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community information literacy health information literacy information experience informed learning religious information literacy
This article uses the idea of informed learning, an interpretation of information literacy that focuses on people's information experiences rather than their skills or attributes, to analyse the character of using information to learn in diverse communities and settings, including digital, faith, indigenous and ethnic communities. While researchers of information behaviour or information seeking and use have investigated people's information worlds in diverse contexts, this work is still at its earliest stages in the information literacy domain. To date, information literacy research has largely occurred in what might be considered mainstream educational and workplace contexts, with some emerging work in community settings. These have been mostly in academic libraries, schools and government workplaces. What does information literacy look like beyond these environments? How might we understand the experience of effective information use in a range of community settings, from the perspective of empirical research and other sources? The article concludes by commenting on the significance of diversifying the range of information experience contexts, for information literacy research and professional practice. © 2013 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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