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Overview
Much-needed guidance for updating your teaching skills and practices!
Information Literacy Instruction for Educators: Professional Knowledge for an Information Age explores various methods of instructing pre-service teachers and administrators on how to locate new subject matter and distinguish between fact, opinion, and rhetoric across a wide variety of topics. Experienced educators and librarians join forces to present a number of exemplary efforts from international communities. This book also looks at approaches for incorporating information literacy instruction into K-12 pre-service education programs.
This book will show you how to develop information literacy skills as a student, a lifelong learner, and as a professional—honing the ability to locate, evaluate, manage, and present information on any subject. This state-of-the-art text presents original thinking about collaborations between librarians and faculty members to promote information literacy as a core element of the professional knowledge for K-12 teachers and administrators in the 21st century.
In Information Literacy Instruction for Educators, you’ll learn about:
- information literacy and digital technologies within the field of education
- collaborations between librarians and academic staff to develop approaches to information literacy for pre-service education students
- a collaboration between university library faculty and members of the educational studies department to meet the new state standards on information literacy and technology
- information literacy integration in a doctoral program—incorporating and verifying standards, and an appraisal of the results
- and more!
Synopsis
In the late 1990s the editors worked with five other faculty members at Washington State U. on a program to infuse information literacy through the school's elementary teacher education program. As they did so, they became interested in how other schools were approaching the problem of focusing teachers' and administrators' attention on acquiring information literacy skills and applying those skills to instructional plans. This collection contains what they found out. The contributors are librarians and teachers who discuss examples in the US, Canada, and Australia. Also published as Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian vol. 22, no. 1, 2003. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Library Journal
Editors Shinew (Coll. of Education, Washington State Univ.) and Walter (Washington State Univ. Libs.) have collected nine peer-reviewed, previously published articles by academic librarians from the United States, Canada, and Australia that explore course-integrated collaborative information literacy programs in their library science and education applications. The editors clearly aim this volume at forward-looking educators and preservice teachers who see librarians not as impassive custodians interested only in shelving but as equals in the educational endeavor. Articles stress the importance of instilling in educators the recognition that information literacy instruction is necessary and that academic media centers are fundamental to quality education and should be so treated. Strongly recommended for professors of education, future teachers, and academic librarians who oversee education and library science collections. [Published simultaneously as Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Vol. 22, No. 1.]-Shannon Williams, Montgomery Cty. Memorial Lib. Syst., Conroe, TX Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.