Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning

✍ Scribed by Mark Hepworth and Geoff Walton (Auth.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning is highly beneficial to those who teach or train people and need to develop systematic ways of using information sources and tools to help them participate in inquiry based learning. Whether at school, college, university or work people need to use the wealth of information around them effectively. They need to find things out, assemble, process, evaluate, manage as well as communicate information. Increasingly a fundamental part of being information literate and an independent learner is being e-literate. This book helps the trainer understand the learner and use appropriate methods to help them explore and engage with being information and e-literate. It also helps the learner to be conscious of what it means to be information and e-literate and to use information effectively.

• Written by two leading experts in information literacy
• Draws on extensive personal experience of training learners and trainers in information literacy and information retrieval
• Uses examples of best practice from the educational context and the workplace

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures and tables, Pages ix-xi
Preface, Pages xiii-xv
Acknowledgements, Pages xvii-xix
1 - Introduction, Pages 3-13
2 - Learning and information literacy, Pages 15-36
3 - The learner as a physical being – a sensory approach, Pages 37-54
4 - The learner as a thinker – a cognitive approach, Pages 55-67
5 - The learner as a sense maker – a constructivist approach, Pages 69-95
6 - The learner as a social being – a social constructivist approach, Pages 97-124
7 - Introduction, Pages 127-134
8 - Learning intervention 1: Understanding learners’ information needs and identifying the knowledge base that the learner wants to develop, Pages 135-150
9 - Learning intervention 2: understanding the information landscape, Pages 151-167
10 - Learning intervention 3: using information retrieval tools and techniques to locate information, Pages 169-191
11 - Learning intervention 4: interaction with and use of information, Pages 193-220
12 - Learning intervention 5: enhancing information literacy in the workplace – a holistic approach, Pages 221-225
13 - Concluding comments, Pages 229-231
References, Pages 233-247
Index, Pages 249-253