Radical Information Literacy
Reclaiming the Political Heart of the IL Movement

This book is a guide to both the processes by which we can become information literate, and to the reasons why this is so necessary in the 21^st century.

Andrew Whitworth (Author)

9781843347484, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 28 July 2014

244 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.35 kg

What would a synthetic theory of Digital, Media and Information Literacy (DMIL) look like? Radical Information Literacy presents, for the first time, a theory of DMIL that synthesises the diversity of perspectives and positions on DMIL, both in the classroom and the workplace, and within the informal learning processes of society. This title is based on original analysis of how decisions are made about the relevance of information and the other resources used in learning, showing how society has privileged objective approaches (used in rule-based decision making) to the detriment of subjective and intersubjective perspectives which promote individual and community contexts. The book goes on to analyse the academic and popular DMIL literature, showing how the field may have been, consciously or unwittingly, complicit in the ‘objectification’ of learning and the disempowerment of individuals and communities. Alternative ways of conceiving the subject are then presented, towards a reversal of these trends.

• List of tables
• About the author
• Introduction
• Part 1: Deconstructing IL
  • Part 1:. Deconstructing IL
  • 1. Basic concepts and terminology
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  • 2. The early days of IL
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  • 3. The diversity of IL
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  • 4. The institutionalising of IL
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• Part 2: Reconstructing IL
  • Part 2:. Reconstructing IL
  • 5. Colonising IL
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  • 6. Mikhail Bakhtin and IL
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  • 7. Practising IL
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  • 8. Reclaiming IL
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• Bibliography
• Index

Subject Areas: Library, archive & information management [GLC], Library & information sciences [GL]