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Towards a constructive unbalancing: the reflexive turn in information literacy

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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:42 authored by Emma M. Coonan
The last two decades have seen a shift in the most fundamental issues of our concern. This transformation can be traced in the thought patterns, concepts and metaphors through which we see our practice as teaching or instruction librarians, and which in turn structure it. Above all, it manifests in a relinquishment, however reluctant, of a monolithic or absolutist vision of information literacy as a singular, constant and stably definable state, in favour of a relational and embodied phenomenon in which the individual’s unique context and connections are of paramount importance. This white paper highlights both the multiplicity of those contexts and the global interconnections between our divergent experiences.

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13-16

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Association of College and Research Libraries

Place of publication

Chicago, IL

Title of book

Global Perspectives on Information Literacy: Fostering a Dialogue for International Understanding

ISBN

978-0-8389-8964-7

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  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-10-18

Legacy creation date

2018-10-17

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