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Publication Date: 2022-Dec
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Information Literacy and the Body in the Kente-Weaving Landscape
Journal of Information Literacy, v16 n2 p5-21 Dec 2022
This article reports on the relationship between becoming information literate and the body in the Kente-weaving landscape. A mixed approach of incorporative ethnographic participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 24 participants through their roles as either master weaver, junior weaver or novice weaver at the Bonwire Kente Centre. Thematic analysis through an embodied-practice approach to information literacy (IL) frames the analysis of this study. The findings show that the body facilitates IL or knowing by understanding and making meaning of the cues afforded it from interaction and participation in the Kente-weaving practices. The body facilitates or enables IL through identifying and understanding cues in an information landscape.
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Skilled Workers, Information Literacy, Human Body, Cues, Participation, Sensory Experience, Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Identification, Comprehension
CILIP Information Literacy Group. 7 Ridgmount Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7AE, United Kingdom. e-mail: JIL@cilip.org.uk; Web site: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/index
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Language: English
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