Critical literacy for information professionals / edited by Sarah McNicol.

Contents Introduction / Sarah McNicol -- PART 1. THEORIES OF CRITICAL LITERACY. 1. Renegotiating the place of fiction in libraries through critical literacy / Sarah McNicol -- 2. Death of the Author(ity): Repositioning students as constructors of meaning in information literacy instruction / Jessica Critten -- 3. Reading health education comics critically, challenging power relationships / Sarah McNicol -- 4. Reframing librarian approaches to international student information literacy through the lens of New Literacy Studies / Alison Hicks -- 5. Using new literacies to discuss disability in the library / J.J. Pionke -- 6. "Anyone can cook": critical literacy in the workplace / Andrew Whitworth -- 7. Social justice, adult learning and critical literacy / Jennifer Lau-Bond.
Contents PART 2. CRITICAL LITERACY IN PRACTICE. 8. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Teaching Media Literacy / Michael Cherry -- 9. Curricular and extra-curricular opportunities to engage school students in critical literacy in England / Rebecca Jones -- 10. New media and critical literacy in secondary schools / Joel Crowley -- 11. Critical literacy and academic honesty: a school librarian's role and contribution / Anthony Tilke -- 12. Engaging Undergraduate Communications Students in critical information literacy / Rachel Elizabeth Scott -- 13. Exploring pedagogical implications of students' search mediation experiences though the lens of critical information literacy / Sarah Clark -- 14. Diffusing critical web literacy in a teacher education setting: initial reflections and future planning / Evangelia Bougatzeli and Efi Papadimitriou.
Summary This edited collection explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 161-164) and index.
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