Description
Book SynopsisExamines how both critical pedagogy and critical information literacy are applied throughout a credit-bearing course as well as in specific lesson plans. The ideas explored in this book can be adapted for a variety of class and course lengths and for a range of students, from first-year undergraduates to doctoral students.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction — Angela Pashia and Jessica Critten
- Chapter 2. No Room for Argument: Researching Politicized Topics as a Learner — Susan Wood
- Chapter 3. Critical Credits: Making the Most of a First-Year Information Literacy Class — Erin Anthony, Rebekah Miller, and Marcia Rapchak
- Chapter 4. When Students Accept Their Corporate Overlords: Privilege and Position in Our Information Society — Kate Hinnant and Robin Miller
- Chapter 5. Balancing Acts in the Critical Library Classroom: Inviting Constructive Dialogue and Resisting “Post-Truth” Discourse in Politically Contentious Moments — Andrea Baer
- Chapter 6. An Unfinished Journey: Towards a Democratic Information Literacy Classroom — Rachel Dineen and Lyda Fontes McCartin
- Chapter 7. Reflections on Adopting a Critical Media and Information Literacy Pedagogy — Spencer Brayton and Natasha Casey
- Chapter 8. Opening to the Margins: Information Literacy and Marginalized Knowledge — Christine M. Larson and Margaret Vaughan
- Chapter 9. Manufacturing a Context: Rhetorical Implications of Standalone Critical Information Literacy Courses — Joel Burkholder
- Chapter 10. Using Fan Studies to Put Information Literacy in Context: On Teaching a Credit Course
- with a Theme — Nancy Foasberg
- Chapter 11. The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus — Patrick Williams
- Chapter 12. Examining Structural Oppression as a Component of Information Literacy — Angela Pashia
- Chapter 13. Teaching Copyleft as a Critical Approach to “Information Has Value” — Kenneth Haggerty and Rachel E. Scott
- Chapter 14. Wikipedia-Based Assignments and Critical Information Literacy: A Case Study — Amanda Foster-Kaufman
- Chapter 15. Exploring Epistemological Lineages: Using the Gallery Walk with Students and Instructors of a First-Year Seminar Course — Gina Schlesselman-Tarango
- Author Biographies