Research Catalog

Title

Transforming information literacy instruction : threshold concepts in theory and practice / Amy R. Hofer, Silvia Lin Hanick, and Lori Townsend.

Author

Hofer, Amy R.

Publication

• Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lin Hanick, Silvia
• Townsend, Lori

Description

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book provides information literacy practitioners with a thorough exploration of how threshold concepts can be applied to information literacy, identifying the important elements and connections between each concept and relating theory to practical methods that can transform how librarians teach. A model that emerged from the Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments project in Great Britain, threshold concepts are those transformative core ideas and processes in a given discipline that define the ways of thinking and practicing shared by experts. Once a learner grasps a threshold concept, new pathways to understanding and learning are opened up. The authors of this book provide readers with both a substantial introduction to and a working knowledge of this emerging theory and then describe how it can be adapted for local information literacy instruction contexts-- Publisher.

Alternative Title

Threshold concepts in theory and practice

Subject

• Information literacy > Study and teaching (Higher)
• Academic libraries > Relations with faculty and curriculum
• Libraries
• Information Literacy
• Libraries
• libraries (buildings)
• Academic libraries > Relations with faculty and curriculum
• Informationskompetenz

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Introduction to Threshold Concepts for Information Literacy Instruction -- 1. Threshold Concepts and Their Application to Information Literacy Instruction -- 2. Identifying Threshold Concepts for Information Literacy -- Part II: Exploring Threshold Concepts for Information Literacy -- 3. Authority -- 4. Format -- 5. Information Commodities -- 6. Organizing Systems -- 7. Research Process -- Part III: Threshold Concepts for Information Literacy in Practice -- 8. Assessment and Threshold Concepts -- 9. Designing Activities for Conceptual Teaching -- 10. Case Study: Fake News (and Other Information Crises).

ISBN

• 9781440841668
• 1440841667
• 9781440841675 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018032809
• 40028737984

OCLC

• on1047542887
• 1047542887
• SCSB-9217101

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library