ERIC Number: EJ1467316
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Publication Date: 2018
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The Seven Voices of Information Literacy (IL)
Veronica Cunningham; Dorothy Williams
Journal of Information Literacy, v12 n2 p4-23 2018
The purpose of this research was to discover the conceptions of information literacy (IL) prevalent across multiple stakeholder groups in an international middle school community. The research involved students, parents, teachers, librarians, IT personnel, administrators and leadership in recorded focus group discussions. Using a phenomenographic approach the qualitatively different ways that stakeholder groups understood IL were revealed. The study found extensive variation in the ways IL is understood, revealing 27 different conceptions of IL shared to varying degrees across stakeholder groups. The findings add to our knowledge of IL in several ways: several new conceptions of IL surfaced from this more diverse sample and new light was shed on the way that people's perceptions and experience of their information context influences their thinking about IL. The article fills a gap in the literature on two levels: firstly, by providing a multi-stakeholder perspective on IL offsetting the multitude of single stakeholder IL studies and secondly by focusing on an international middle school environment which has not been a context for IL research in the recent past.
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Stakeholders, Middle Schools, International Schools, Knowledge Level, Concept Formation, Context Effect, Librarians, School Libraries, Researchers, Middle School Teachers, Administrators, Middle School Students, Technical Support, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
CILIP Information Literacy Group. 7 Ridgmount Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7AE, United Kingdom. e-mail: JIL@cilip.org.uk; Web site: https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/index
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada; United States; United Kingdom; Germany; Netherlands; Norway; Sweden; France; Spain; Italy; Belgium; Australia; Russia; South Africa; Singapore; Venezuela; Malaysia; Japan
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