Re-envisioning search education through a critical information literacy lens

Sinnamon, Luanne; Dodson, Samuel; Li, Alice; Shahid, Syeda Hina

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Title

Re-envisioning search education through a critical information literacy lens

Author(s)

• Sinnamon, Luanne
• Dodson, Samuel
• Li, Alice
• Shahid, Syeda Hina

Issue Date

2024-10-16

Keyword(s)

• search education
• critical information literacy
• informatics
• search engines
• education of information professionals
• information organization and retrieval
• information technologies
• sociocultural perspectives

Abstract

Search engines are a pervasive and powerful means of accessing information in contemporary society. Library and Information Science approaches to educating students in information retrieval and online searching focus on search skills and the design of search systems, largely excluding critical perspectives. Major shifts in how information is produced, retrieved, and used require an ethically grounded re-evaluation of these approaches. Critical information literacy offers a framework for deepening pedagogy related to search. We present a case of an undergraduate course that instantiates a critical approach and discuss outcomes, challenges, and plans for future development.

Publisher

Association for Library and Information Science Education

Series/Report Name or Number

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2024

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

• Conference Paper
• Presentation

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130773

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1666

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• Copyright 2024 Luanne Sinnamon, Samuel Dodson, Alice Li, Syeda Hina Shahid
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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